| On philology, potatoes and construction. |
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Well, this is just my first approach to blog-writing. I want it to be the way to keep in touch with colleagues and friends.
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| Mutation and lenition |
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I have just read my last article on the geminates again. Obviously I have mentioned the main patterns within Romance and Celtic languages.
In a more detailed explanation I should mention (all evidence supporting the Celtic thesis):
* there is mutation in word-medial context in Celtic. The main example is when adding a prefix to a stem.
* mutation can be just syntactic (syntactic phonetics as it is lenition in Romance) whith no grammatical value at all in Celtic. For instance after particles or prepositions, regardless of function or word type coming next.
* Grammatical mutation following Celtic pattern can be found in Western Romance. For instance to mark gender: the name Urraca (/g/ > 0 ) meaning, as in Britton Celtic, the woman or the wife.
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