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Frans Plank wrote:
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<pre wrap="">though it is perhaps tangential to the current issue: German colour
adjectives such as ROSA, LILA, SEPIA (ditto non-colour PRIMA 'fine', EXTRA,
SOLO, ANDERSWO 'elsewhere', SOLALA, K.O. (/ka:.o:/), O.K. (/o:.ke:/),
SPITZE 'top', KLASSE 'high-class', etc.) are not peculiar
*morphologically*. Their morphological behaviour is epiphenomenal: it's
their *phonology* (final coda vowel) which is to blame. I don't think one
would want to set up a special inflection class for that.
Frans
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Yes, but what about OLIV (no coda vowel) which, I think, behaves like
ROSA and not like NAIV? (<i>*Seine naivenen Vorstellungen </i>is
out.) Similarly, maybe, also AUBERGINE (which some pople might
pronounce with a shwa).<br>
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Hartmut<br>
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