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<div>I'm asking if anyone has described or found likely cases where some epenthetic segment(s) has/have been exapted from previously meaningful morphology. </div>
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<div>So think of a morpheme that once meant something, becomes semantically bleached, but then acquires a function as an epenthetic element to meet minimality conditions or to avoid vowel hiatus or something else. </div>
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<div>I understand (from wikipedia) that /t/ in French interrogatives comes from habet and could be an example of this and the insertion of /n/ in English after 'a' determiner #vowel is also an example. I'm wondering about more sources on diachronic processes
like these. Also any good sources on the French and English processes would also be helpful.</div>
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<div>best,</div>
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<div>Adam<br>
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