Basque <ibili>

[Stanley Friesen]

At 09:46 AM 2/24/00 +0000, Larry Trask wrote:
>is no way the borrowing language can inflect the borrowed verb-stem.  Arabic
>loans into Turkish are a good case in point: there is no earthly way that an
>internally inflected Arabic verbal root can be handled within the purely
>suffixing Turkish verbal morphology, which requires verb-stems to contain
>vowels.

Umm, what will get borrowed into Turkish is one of the "expanded" variants
*with* its vowels, which will then be treated as a Turkish verb stem, and
inflected according to the Turkish rules.

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