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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 697.
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:07:11 +0000
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@staff.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: 17.691 studies of beginnings & endings of words?
Most of the grammars of older Indo-European languages will have a
section on word-final developments, and there are even books on the
subject; cf. Alois Walde, Die germanischen Auslautgesetze. Eine
sprachwissenschaftliche Untersuchung mit vornehmlicher
Beruecksichtung der Zeitfolge der Auslautsveraenderungen. Halle,
1900. Many of these grammars are in German, and the German word is
`Auslaut'. In English we often say `laws of finals', and the
French linguist Andre Martinet introduced the adjective
`desinential' into English. Word initial is not taken up all that
much, though I do remember that Hirt in his Indogermanische
Grammatik (vol. 1) has a section on Anlaut (initial). There are
some languages, like the Celtic, where one has to treat initial
changes, e. g. Irish bean `woman', mna `of the woman', and there is
the famous `Notker's Anlaut(s)gesetz' in Old High German.
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> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 691.
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> Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 08:11:43 +0000
> From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" <yutamb@mail.cis.ru>
> Subject: beginnings-endings of the word in world languages
>
>Dear Humanist Discussion Group colleagues, I'm studying the frequency of
>occurrence of sounds (phonemes) at the beginning and end of the word in
>different world languages now. I wonder if you can tell me who studies it
>and where it is published. In many Turkic languages the frequency of some
>groups of consonants and vowels is quite different at the beginning and end
>of the word. So far, I have studied Turkish, Tatar-Baraba, Tatar-Kazan',
>Uyghur, Jukut, Bashkir and Turkmen. I'm going to compare their data to the
>languages of TUngus-Manchurian and Mongolian family. All of them to
>Japanese and Korean or Chinese. I wonder if the data on the languages
>mentioned above have been published? Looking forward to hearing from you to
><mailto:yutamb@hotmail.com>yutamb@hotmail.com Remain yours sincerely and
>hopefully Yuri Tambovtsev
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