ABSTRACT
VV in languages with independently motivated length con-
-cons -cons
must be neither a long vowel nor a short vowel, but a vowel-
have only short vowels.
fn. 36 and Anderson 1981:515-21. Thus, where ",;;" means
"reinterpreted as" and .. .. ~ under a vowel indicates
we may imagine two possible sequences of events leading
for fourteenth-to sixteenth-century French in section
Regardless of which of these two sequences of events occurs
can be explained or motivated.
