tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 15 14:52:49 2001
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RE: K'Zhen Zu-Merz
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Ruehlaender [mailto:[email protected]]
>
> > I understand the CVC norm, with the odd canon exceptions.
> I'm not suggesting
> > this is an exception
> > but rather that TKD suggests, to me, that <aw> is treated
> as the vowel.. My
> > belief is backed up as
> > <'> is a consonent which unless it is an exception idicates
> that if the <law'
> > >
> > in chimlaw' is a CVC and
> > not a CVCC. If it's not an exception then the <aw>
> construction is surely
> > being treated as a vowel.
>
> but {law'} *is* generally considered to be a CVCC,
> remember that -w' is one of the three -CC endings
> allowed, along with -y' and -rgh
But I thought <'> could only follow a vowel and TKD gives the <aw>
construction a vowel sound.
Putting those two ideas together means it can not be a CVCC exception it
must surely dfit into the CVC theme.
>
> > Don't get me wrong I'm not saying I know, it's just how it
> appears to me.
> >
> > qe'San
> Marc Ruehlaender
> aka HomDoq
> [email protected]
qe'San