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<p>Dear Jeff,</p>
<p>There are examples of this in Semitic. In Neo-Aramaic dialects,
for example, a glottal stop obligatorily occurs before a vowel in
word-initial position, including when there is proclitic
preposition, e.g. <i>'ida </i>'hand', <i>b'ida </i>'in (the)
hand', which reflects a morphological division <i>b </i>[in] + <i>'ida
</i>[hand]. This can be used as a diagnostic for identifying
reanalysis of prepositional phrases as verbal stems, e.g. <i>bixala
</i>'eating' (progressive stem), which has developed historically
from the prepositional phrase <i>b </i>[in] + <i>'ixala </i>'eating'.
If it were still a prepositional phrase with a morpheme boundary
after the <i>b</i>, it would have been <i>b'ixala.</i></p>
<p>Geoffrey Khan<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/11/2020 5:40 AM, Jeff Siegel
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Greetings:
I'm posting a question from a colleague in Germany:
do you know of any language where the apostrophe represents a glottal
stop and where it highlights morphological information? that is, the
apostrophe (the glottal stop) only occurs at word-initial or word-final
position or at morpheme boundaries. it would be great if you could give
me an example. unfortunately i could not find any in the literature.
Grateful for any replies.
Thanks,
Jeff
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