“For example, the English verb house used to have a voiceless [s], like the noun house, but at some point it underwent a voicing change that did not affect the noun because of different phonological conditions (the verb used to have a vowel suffix until Middle English times, whereas in the noun the s was word final already in Old English).”
Martin Haspelmath – Understanding Morphology
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 23.
- Find the 5th sentence.
- Post the text in your journal along with these instructions.
Via HarryV (harry.25cl.org)
