[Lingtyp] morpheme -> empty morph -> epenthetic formative?

[Guillaume Segerer]

Dear Adam

If you can read French, there is a (rather big) PhD thesis by Claudiner 
Pagliano ("L'épenthèse consonantique en français"), available here :
lolita.unice.fr/~scheer/papers/Pagliano 03 - L'epenthese consonantique 
en francais PhD main text.pdf

best,
Guillaume Segerer
CNRS - LLACAN (UMR 8135)

Le 03/02/2020 à 14:10, TALLMAN Adam a écrit :
> Hey everyone,
>
> I'm asking if anyone has described or found likely cases where some 
> epenthetic segment(s) has/have been exapted from previously meaningful 
> morphology.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> best,
>
> Adam
>
>
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> Adam James Ross Tallman (PhD, UT Austin)
> ELDP-SOAS -- Postdoctorant
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