<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Adam,<div><br></div><div>Jaminjung and Ngaliwurru (Mirndi, AU) have an 'epenthetic syllable' (Schultze-Berndt 2000: 99) that is a reflex of a desiderative morpheme, which '[...] is maintained only when the pronominal complex is consonant-final, and hence would have provided a pre-existing strategy to <b>adhere to a preference for final vowels, avoiding potentially dispreferred consonant clusters</b> [...]' (Osgarby 2018: 271).</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div><div>Schultze-Berndt, Eva. 2000. Simple and Complex Verbs in Jaminjung: A Study of Event Categorisation in an Australian Language. MPI Series in Psycholinguistics 14. Wageningen: Ponsen & Looijen.</div><div><br>Osgarby, David. 2018. “Reconstructing Proto-Mirndi Verbal Morphology: From Particles and Clitics to Prefixes.” Australian Journal of Linguistics 38 (2): 223–92. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2018.1400504">https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2018.1400504</a>.</div></div>
</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 00:11, TALLMAN Adam <<a href="mailto:Adam.TALLMAN@cnrs.fr" target="_blank">Adam.TALLMAN@cnrs.fr</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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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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