Information / nouns vs. verbs

[David Kaufman]

John,

The definition of haplology is:

"A sporadic change in which successive syllables, etc. which are similar in form are reduced to one."  This is from The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics.  They give the example of Late Latin idololatria 'worship of idols' being reduced to forms such as French idôlatrie > English idolatry.   

Your definition is an easier way of saying the same thing!

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: Koontz John E
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 11:49 AM
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: Information / nouns vs. verbs

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Linda Cumberland wrote:
> I have two attested forms in Assiniboine taken from conversations:
> thi tha 'his/her house' and thipi tha 'his/her/their house'.

I take it that Assiniboine lacks that -wa extension that occurs with
separate tha- in Teton (I think)?

> I have never seen forms with pi doubled, as in the suggested "thipipi"
> as a plural for houses, nor in any other form.  In fact, it has been
> my understanding that this could not occur (haplology? syntactic
> scope? I'd be glad to hear other people's explanations.)

Remind me - is haplology the techical term for 'it sounds really weird if
you repeat it, so they don't'?  I think there's a scribal joke - haplogy
...

JEK
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