<div dir="ltr">Hi Adam,<div><br></div><div>East Caucasian (aka Nakh-Daghestanian) language inflect nouns from a so called "oblique stem" which often but not always corresponds to the ergative case (or , in Kryz only, to the genitive). Very often also this stem has lost any autonomy synchronically. The situation varies enormously across languages and branches. Avar language is famous for its variety of stem formations, including apophony.</div><div>The only overview I am aware of was a presentation by late A. E. Kibrik at IMM in Vienna ten years ago, but it was a powerpoint and not published afterwards. Maybe his disciples have some copy of it, or maybe
Johanna Nichols (cc) does. Among his findings, I remember that he cited Khinalug, a single-language-branch which probably emerged as a mixed language, had lost oblique stems altogether, suggesting that this "useless" (morphomic ?) type of morphology is difficult in language acquisition.</div><div><br></div><div>GA</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 2:10 PM TALLMAN Adam <<a href="mailto:Adam.TALLMAN@cnrs.fr">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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