-ca in Sanskrit and Bartholomae's law

Vidhyanath Rao rao.3 at osu.edu
Wed Jun 27 11:45:28 UTC 2001


"Oliver Neukum" <Oliver.Neukum at lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:

> could someone explain why Bartholomae's law never affects -ca ?

Isn't Bartholomae's Law limited to 'word"-internal sandhi, and not
applicable even to compounds? [even secondary affixes seem to be immune
to internal sandhi] I can't find any primary suffixes that begin with c
or j [and primary suffixes that begin with k, g, p seem to rare and not
productive].



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