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-- Barry Garcia <Montrei13@hidden.email> wrote:
> Padraic mentioned starting a new thread for
> this topic, to not take
> the limelight off of lethino pronouns.
>
> Anyway, Roger Mills has been incredibly
> helpful, but as I am not a
> linguist, I'm a touch bewildered. But, he's
> essentially whittled
> things down to:
>
> "Latin and Proto-Austronesian had similar
> consonant inventories except
> for /f/, which PAn lacks".
Hence AN-R verbs like pacal < facere.
> The problem though is manhandling latin
> polysyllabic words to fit them
> into a PAn bi-syllabic structure (which Tagalog
> still favors for base
> roots: inom, kain, luto, aral, etc), although
> there are attested
> trisyllabic bases which got reduced, such as
> *paNudan > pandan
> (Pandanus) by dropping the middle vowel. My
> thought was to eliminate
> the unstressed syllables, much like what
> Spanish already has done on
> its way to becoming its modern self. Roger then
> suggested doing that,
> then dealing with clusters (which PAn had few).
Some clusters remain in Spanish borrowings
(iskuwela) -- would they all disappear in AN-R?
> The easiest way would
> be to reduce them down, either assimilation, or
> just getting rid of
> one in favor of the strongest, except perhaps
> where nasal + consonant
> comes into play.
Sounds reasonable. Latin was already reducing its
clusters (dlingua > lingua) etc. Sounds like AN-R
would continue the trend.
Padraic
>
> Thoughts?
>
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