Re: Passion of the Christ, languages

From: Miguel Carrasquer (mcv_at_wxs.nl)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:41:34 +0200

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 19:38:54 +0200, Rasmus Underbjerg
Pinnerup <pinnerup@*fjerndette*privat.dk> wrote:

>Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@wxs.nl> mælte sligt:
>
>>I would *expect* aspirated. Non-emphatic consonants were
>>probably (optionally) apirated in Proto-Semitic, which is
>>why p, t, k -> f, þ (> s), x, and b, d, g > v, ð, G [...]
>
>Do they need to have been aspirated for lenition to occur, as your
>statement below seems to indicate?

The case is obviously stronger for the voiceless stops, but
the facts allow generalization to all non-emphatics.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@wxs.nl