Olivia-SY - Appendix Probi HW PDF

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Find three other examples from the Appendix Probi (the link is on Blackboard in the sidebar) and try to describe what is going on. There are several types of linguistic alternations that the authors advise against in the Appendix Probi. They are advising against the omission of a vowel in these examples: 4. masculus non masclus [good; these are examples of the loss of an unstressed internal vowel] 11. iugulus non iuglus 12. calcostegis non calcosteis [this one would be the loss of a consonant, the ‘g’] Advising against assimilation: 44. bravium non brabium 29. avus non aus [with ‘v’ (pronounced ‘w’) being absorbed by ‘u’, its vocalic counterpart] 54. frigida non fricda [this also involves loss of unstressed internal syllable] Advising against using incorrect declensions: 36. barbarus non barbar [good; you’ve seen that this is a morphological, not phonological, issue] 52. doleus non dolium 41. acre non acrum...