On 11/4/2019 4:32 PM, De'vID wrote:
On Mon, Nov 4, 2019, 21:59 , <kechpaja@kechpaja.com <mailto:kechpaja@kechpaja.com>> wrote:
It also isn't that strange for a language to have an affix that can't attach to words with certain phonological shapes, even if the resulting word wouldn't violate any phonological rules. For instance, the English deadjectival verbalizing suffix "-en" that we see in words such as "redden" and "darken" (it's generally used with color terms, but can occasionally occur with other adjectives) cannot be added to adjectives ending in a vowel or sonorant — which is why you don't hear *yellowen or *greenen.
You do if you're willing to embiggen your vocabulary.
By applying known rules in ways that don't contradict other rules, as with the word /embiggen./ But you /don't/ hear /yellowen/ or /greenen/ because these contradict the very rule that SapIr just cited. /Embiggen/ violates so such rule. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name