MVS -> OP stop series ?
R. Rankin
rankin at ku.edu
Sun Feb 15 15:06:44 UTC 2004
The only question marks for me are these:
> Da shifts *th to h in initial position in verbs.
I can't recall at the moment if we had real instances of initial *th in Dakotan.
The reconstruction behind the set DAK h-, WINN j- and DHEG th- is *rh- (Allan
Taylor's 1970's paper on motion verbs). These, in turn, probably stem from
earlier *rV-h-, where the *rV- was probably a deictic or maybe the verb *re:
'go'. But maybe there are initial *th examples too. I'll have to do a search,
something that is becoming harder and harder as Windows XP will no longer permit
me to access the CSD files with their proper fonts. I have to crank up a
Windows 98 machine with the files on it.
> Many *ph become h.
This is true in Omaha, Ponca and, as I recall, Quapaw, but not in Osage or
Kansa. I *think* most of these *ph > h cases are bi-morphemic, i.e., the *p
part is a different morpheme historically from the h, which begins the root. I
guess the place to check for crucial examples might be the 1st sg. of the verb
/hi/ and the noun 'mosquito'. But this probably isn't saying much, as most
examples of /ph/ were bi-morphemic.
Bob
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