[Spellyans] <y>, <i>, etc

[Michael Everson]

At 15:56 +0000 2008-07-25, Jon Mills wrote:
>Just because a word has two or more syntactic functions does not 
>entail two or more lexemes. Are going to spell GALLOS (noun) 
>differently from GALLOS (verb), and every other word that has more 
>than one syntactic function in Cornish? Would you spell the English 
>word BITE differently  in 'Bite an apple' from 'Let's go for a bite' 
>because one is a verb and the other a noun?

The noun and a verb distinction you and Eddie have adduced is quite a 
different thing from the split which has occurred here. On the one 
hand we have a preposition which conjugates and does not cause 
mutation, and on the other we have an adverbial particle which does 
not conjugate and which does cause a mutation.

>I'll be away from my computer over the weekend. Talk to you all 
>again on Monday.

Have a nice weekend.
-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com