a phonetic mystery

[Rankin, Robert L]

All,

I seem to be missing the posting that started this thread off. It's possible
I may have been to handy with the "delete" key or something. could someone
foreword the original message back to the list or to me?  Thanx.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Koontz John E [mailto:John.Koontz at colorado.edu]
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 1:33 PM
> To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
> Subject: Re: a phonetic mystery
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Bruce Ingham wrote:
> > I'm glad that everyone else finds this confusing too.
> Actually I think the word
> > for 'steal' is written manun or manon in everything I've ever seen.
> > Not man[u] (?)
>
> Perhaps the enclitic boundary is relevant?  It might in some
> sense block
> the interactions between manu(N) and pi, whereas there is no
> such boundary
> between nuN and pa in 'two'.  In that case =ktA should behave
> similarly,
> and =pi with other stems.  Obviously the ablaut vowel
> conditioned by =ktA
> make that something of a special case.  This might clarify whether iN
> behaved as if it were in the stem or the enclitic.
>
> Is there any boundary in 'swim'?
>
>
>