Linguistics Inquiry

[Alina Israeli]

>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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