From: Anton Sherwood (bronto@pobox.com)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 06:46:14 EST
Jeffrey S. Jones wrote:
> Anyhow, one point of possible interest is that some nouns and adjectives
> change quality of the stressed vowel in the plural. Examples:
> --- la flur, las flors;
> --- l tor, lus tars;
Is this the outcome of a sequence of regular shifts, or did you just
think it was cool? ;)
I haven't come up with a plausible sequence that results in both
flore>flur and torres>tars; the raising and lowering forces tend to undo
each other.
-- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
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