<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Excrescence seems to be rather atypical in Semitic, but Cypriot Maronite Arabic offers a number of examples. For instance, the clusters *ms, *mš, *mx, *mr, *ml are phonotactically unacceptable and are regularly replaced by mps, mpš, mpx, mpr, mbl. Synchronically, this yields regular alternations like míšek "he walked" + -t > mpšaxt "I walked", or ʔáxmar "red" + -a > xámpra "red"; diachronically, it regularly yields forms like Classical Arabic qamħ "wheat" > kampx, or 'ams "yesterday" > ʔimps. (All examples from Maria Tsiapera's _A Descriptive Analysis of Cypriot Maronite Arabic_, for convenience since I have it on my shelf, but more details can be found in Alexander Borg's works.)<br><br></div>Lameen Souag<br></div>LACITO, CNRS<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 6:11 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:histling-l-request@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">histling-l-request@mailman.yale.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send histling-l mailing list submissions to<br>
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According to Wilco van den Heuvel's (2006) dissertation, Biak<br>
(Austronesian, NW New Guinea) inserts a [b] into /mr/ clusters and a [d]<br>
into /nr/ clusters (the latter only in major word classes). So for example<br>
PMP *malip 'to laugh' -> *mbrif*, with regular historical deletion of the<br>
initial syllable's *a. Apparently this is a synchronically active<br>
phonological process: the intrusive consonants are inserted when the<br>
illegal clusters are created over a morpheme boundary, and disappear when<br>
reduplication breaks up a cluster that's present in a monomorphemic form (<br>
*mbra?n* 'walk' -> *mara?ndan*, probably from *ma- plus PMP *zalan).<br>
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> Subject: [Histling-l] excrescence by regular rule?<br>
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> operates on individual words in an unpredictable fashion (that is, the<br>
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> wondering if there are cases where someone believes it to have operated in<br>
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