<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Dear Martha,</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Does anyone know of a reconstruction in which someone has posited a regular change involving insertion of a consonant between two other consonants? I had always thought of excrescence as a sound change that operates on individual words in an unpredictable fashion (that is, the low-level transitional consonant is phonologized unpredictably), but am wondering if there are cases where someone believes it to have operated in a regular, rule-governed fashion to an entire set of words.<br>
I am especially interested in insertions of the ?thimble?/?hombre? type, but would be interested in examples of the ?Hampshire? type as well.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There are several sound laws in Tibetan that are of the type you mention, </div><div>(1) *ry- > rgy- (Li Fang-kuei's law, which even applies to indic borrowings, so it is incontrovertible) </div><div>(2) *Nr- > Ndr-, *mr > mbr-. </div><div>(3) *Ns- > Ntsʰ-, *Nɕ- > Ntɕʰ-</div><div>see the following article by Nathan W. Hill:</div><div><br></div><div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.academia.edu_2528975_An-5FInventory-5Fof-5FTibetan-5FSound-5FLaws&d=DwMFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=xWgwnXzyLjTDtEN1jkc-sliD_cd49k7fc7XSMi_8aeo&m=aZHn_NgFClfVQ_OuWQ2rpCVznfaFFLPOQhkDMHzWo4Y&s=ypugLcpV9w0Ho8jZj2ekNA_7b1b4lHPuVUbrxSe7uvA&e=">https://www.academia.edu/2528975/An_Inventory_of_Tibetan_Sound_Laws</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Similar sound changes are extremely common in Indo-European, found in many families (Martin Kümmel's book has a copious list).</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In Rgyalrongic, we find *mr- > mbr-, and *mɕ > mpɕ- (merging with *mpʰj-), see p 35 of my 2004 dissertation:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.academia.edu_968764_Phonologie-5Fet-5Fmorphologie-5Fdu-5Fjaphug-5FrGyalrong-5F&d=DwMFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=xWgwnXzyLjTDtEN1jkc-sliD_cd49k7fc7XSMi_8aeo&m=aZHn_NgFClfVQ_OuWQ2rpCVznfaFFLPOQhkDMHzWo4Y&s=rul2XNSaArzs_nNFheaCsVOB9yoJBH1S0O9E8zGuqow&e=">https://www.academia.edu/968764/Phonologie_et_morphologie_du_japhug_rGyalrong_</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Best wishes,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Guillaume</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Guillaume Jacques<br>CNRS (CRLAO) - INALCO<br><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cnrs.academia.edu_GuillaumeJacques&d=DwMFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=xWgwnXzyLjTDtEN1jkc-sliD_cd49k7fc7XSMi_8aeo&m=aZHn_NgFClfVQ_OuWQ2rpCVznfaFFLPOQhkDMHzWo4Y&s=rfBjBP0Q6P4xAl7mQIQwvSnNIjYu__jvpuLlt6ggGWI&e=" target="_blank">http://cnrs.academia.edu/GuillaumeJacques</a><br><div><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__panchr.hypotheses.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=xWgwnXzyLjTDtEN1jkc-sliD_cd49k7fc7XSMi_8aeo&m=aZHn_NgFClfVQ_OuWQ2rpCVznfaFFLPOQhkDMHzWo4Y&s=7JglnekvpQOE0xXl3btgTRm3KlraGRVSO3HbYdeeVuE&e=" target="_blank">http://panchr.hypotheses.org/</a></div></div></div></div>
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