Re: How close is Vietnamese to Mandarin or Cantonese?

On Sun, 22 May 2005 09:17:48 +1200, benlizross
<benlizro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:428FA57C.BAE@xxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:

> Brian M. Scott wrote:

[...]

>> No, it's the claim that names have a different *kind* of
>> meaning from ordinary words, and I think that it's entirely
>> correct.

> They do constitute a special class meaning-wise, though
> I'd hesitate to talk about a "different kind of meaning".
> Their meaning is of the form "[entity] named X". But this
> gives no justification for treating them as outside
> normal phonology or grammar.

Not for the most part, no. I think that there may well be a
case that names are more likely to undergo irregular sound
changes, but this would be a statistical difference.

Brian
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