Linguistics Inquiry
Alina Israeli
aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU
Sat Mar 1 00:13:16 UTC 2003
>Dear Colleagues:
>
>This is outside my area of expertise, and I hope some of you can help out.
>
>A student of mine is doing a project in phonology, and wants to choose
>some rules in Russian where sounds change in certain environments. He is
>most interested in the "g" in -ogo/ego. (Of course, since this occurs
>only in adjectives, perhaps it is not interesting enough for a phonology
>project...?)
It is not a g. It is just a case of an idiosincratic spelling as far as
contemporary Russian is concerned. It is just a morpheme where the sound
[v] is spelled as g.
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Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20016
phone: (202) 885-2387
fax: (202) 885-1076
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