FW: Histling-l Digest, Vol 67, Issue 7

[Roger Lass]

From: Guillaume Jacques [mailto:rgyalrongskad at gmail.com] 
Sent: 01 December 2012 01:57 PM
To: Roger Lass
Subject: Re: [Histling-l] Histling-l Digest, Vol 67, Issue 7

 

Dear professor Lass,

 

I think that your message was sent only to me, you may need to send it again to the list histling-l at mailman.rice.edu

 

Best regards,

 

Guillaume Jacques

2012/12/1 Roger Lass <lass at iafrica.com>

Just another remark on something that might belong here. There is a change that occurs in many Middle English dialects, where the OE past participle prefix ge- [je] < [i], spelled i or y. It can also delete, but when it remains after about the 13th century it occurs only in that form. It persists variably up to at least the 17th century, usually spelled y, as in yclept ‘called’ < OE ge-cleopod. No other instances of [je] do this as far as I know, so the change is not only restricted to a particular morphological category but to one member of the category. There are also cases of metathesis and epenthesis in Middle English restricted only to two lexical items, and at least one sound change in Irish that is restricted to one item. I can provide references on those two cases if anybody is interested.

RL

 

From: histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [mailto:histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of Guillaume Jacques
Sent: 01 December 2012 01:34 PM
To: histling-l at mailman.rice.edu
Subject: Re: [Histling-l] Histling-l Digest, Vol 67, Issue 7

 

 

 

I would be very grateful for any discussion of this or advice on
treatments of this question in literature.

 

This phonetic change in Nahuatl is discussed by Campbell and Langacker 1978, part II (in International Journal of American Linguistics), p.201, ft 43. I think that they were the first to propose a morphological conditioning for the loss of initial *p- (preservation only in verbs and some kinship terms, because they are generally prefixed and therefore *p is not word-initial in at least part of the paradigm).

 

 

 

-- 
Guillaume Jacques
CNRS (CRLAO) - INALCO
http://xiang.free.fr
 http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/export_listeperso_xml.php?url_id=0000000003849





 

-- 
Guillaume Jacques
CNRS (CRLAO) - INALCO
http://xiang.free.fr
 http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/export_listeperso_xml.php?url_id=0000000003849

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