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Re: tæ:ʏz, perhaps *tæ:wɪz with a dropped intervocalic *w triggering rounding?

The lack of devoicing in glɔ is easily explained by rule ordering, if *gl became /l/ before the devoicing applied. C.f. Osage, where Proto-Mississippi-Valley-Siouan *kr gives /l/.

A few observations... a) Language B appears to preserve original word-final voiced obstruents, while language A drops them at least sometimes. Examples include ʔɑ~æd , m̊ɐɪ~mɔɪd , ðo:~ðuɣ , le:~lez ...in fact there may have been a general process of voiced-obstruent loss in language A: witness appar...

Well, all classical composers are heavily underrated these days. But yes, RVW particularly. He's known in this country for a couple of major crowd-pleasers - mostly The lark ascending and Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis ; if you're lucky, maybe also English folk song suite and/or Fantasia on G...

According to the Telegraph, moreover, an extension requires approval from every single EU member state. I can easily imagine some wild card--Hungary? Italy? Bulgaria? vetoing an extension and casting the UK into the abyss. Particularly with only two weeks to go, there's little time for negotiation o...

Isn't Proto-Bantu supposed to have had partially fricated *i *u, which conditioned fricativization on a preceding consonant and then merged with *ɪ *ʊ?

RVW's Charterhouse Suite for Strings.

(I feel like RVW is heavily underrated...maybe that's just on the American side of the pond.)

Unconditional epenthetic word-initial /ŋ/ is also attested in some varieties of Chinese.

kodé wrote: ↑Sat Feb 16, 2019 11:23 pm Just finished (well, a couple days ago) a full draft of this paper on Muskogee verbs that’s been taking me months and months! If I can manage to publish it, maybe I won’t perish!

What is it on in particular?

I'll go further and say that using family names as given names is a tradition I associate primarily with WASPs. Particularly in the South, it was a way of preserving a maternal surname into the next generation. Ethnically, white Southern Protestants are overwhelmingly English, Scottish, and Scots-I...

“The Proto-Ndu contrast of word-final voiceless stops (p, t and k), the nasal n and the rhotic r has been lost in Manambu, all five segments merging as r.”

-Aikhenvald, Typological Plausibility and Historical Reconstruction

Note also that Grassmann's Law operates on word-initial Greek /h/ (from *s ), which stayed /s/ in Sanskrit: *ségʰoh₂(mi) > Greek ἔχω but Sanskrit sahā(mi) . Greek /h/ cannot however trigger Grassmann's; PIE *dʰh₁sós 'god' > proto-Greek tʰehós (and Mycenean te-ho ) > θεός, not **τεός.

There are some examples in Algonquian, but because of the morphological nature of Algonquian languages all examples are extremely short stems that always have affixes. E.g. in most languages you have a stem -i:k 'house' which must always be possessed (e.g. Menominee nēk 'my house'). Menominee additi...

I sso go zielago mira bie sino esico, i sina rieci. [i so go 'tsjelago 'mira bje 'zino e'ziko i 'zina 'rjetʃi] I stasse, togoda uoni géhaho odogo vostuoca, cogoda naido puoli voti semlí Scinara; i musisce tamo. [i 'stase to'goda 'woni 'dʒexaxo o'dogo vo'stwoka ko'goda 'naido 'pwoli 'voti ze'mli ʃi'...

Quick adjective post. Adjectives follow nouns. They have separate declensions based on whether or not the noun is definite (e.g. has a definite article); all, however, are stem-accents. Definite declension: https://i.imgur.com/fbgNmJj.png Indefinite declension: https://i.imgur.com/MVXgGS7.png Note t...

The Patavian language (native To Gesico Patávoschi , [to dʒe'ziko pa'tavoski]) is a language descended from the Common Slavic of the Slavs who invaded northern Italy immediately following the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476. IOT, Slavic never gained a foothold in Italy and was replaced by Ro...

When the news was announced that the signature threshold had been reached, I thought there was no way May was going to squeak through. Now that it's turned out that that's wrong, and she's promised not to lead the Tories into the next General Election, I think I can see what happened. If she had bee...

['ɒ:ɰɐɫ] for both.

A Brexit-watcher on another internet community has floated the theory that May purposely bombed the deal presentation as a 17-D chess move to get Brexit cancelled.

She does not strike me as playing the game on that level.

Yes, that's right, I was thinking of de Rijk's. Sorry.