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<P><FONT face="Courier New">>Getting back to /morilo-x/, looking at the morphology of the verb <BR>>itself shows that it's of a *very* early strate of the language, >since <BR>>it uses the rather ossified -la- denominal verbalizing particle >attached <BR>>to the noun *mori "horse".</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=courier> Personally, I would not call this an "ossified" suffix. In fact, /-l/ (a voiced lateral fricative) in the modern Khalkha dialect of Mongolian (< Proto-Mongolic *-lA) is actually still used today for forming new verbs. For example, modern Khalkha /atag-l-x/ (Cyrillic <ataklax>). Also, /xarma-l-x/ ~ /karma-l-x/ (Cyrillic <karmalax>) 'to pick-pocket', from Russian <atak> and <karman>. Also, despite the orthographic convention, there are in fact no long vowels in non-initial syllables in Khalkha (phonemically or phonetically, as proven by recent research by Svantesson et al 2005; something is also mentioned in Janhunen 2003), and what are generally represented in the orthography as short vowels in non-initial syllables are in fact non-existent phonemically and are phonetically realized by means of schwa epenthesis. Thus, what you write as /morilox/ according to this new evidence is actually
represented phonemically as /mor'-l-x/ and is phonetically realized as [/moer.l3x] (where [3] crudely represents a schwa, [oe] a lax mid front rounded vowel, [/] stress and ['] palatalization).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Courier>Best,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Courier>Andrew</FONT></P></DIV><p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com
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