Timeline for Morphophonology of changing adjectives to nouns
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| Dec 6, 2018 at 0:49 | comment | added | brass tacks | Since y comes from Latin, which didn’t have ft clusters, I don’t think it’s likely that there are any candidates for -fcy or -ft-y nouns. “Safety”, a -ty noun, has /ft/ in pronunciation, although not in spelling, since it is not Latinate in form. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 14:10 | comment | added | Sir Cornflakes | @ayse vacant/vacancy adds another rule to the ruleset. I don't know whether difficult/difficulty is part of the sample you are analysing–this would add another rule. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 9:10 | comment | added | Sir Cornflakes | @user6726: Do you have any example for a fricative different from /s/ (the main candidate would be an f, but I cannot come up with any -ft vs. -fty or -fcy example)? | |
| Dec 3, 2018 at 22:47 | comment | added | Sir Cornflakes | @sumelic normalcy is a strange one, and it is later (historically) and rarer than normality according to Google ngrams: books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Dec 3, 2018 at 22:27 | comment | added | brass tacks | And what about “normalcy”? | |
| Dec 3, 2018 at 16:15 | comment | added | user6726 | Fricatives block the rule., glides and nasals don't. | |
| Dec 3, 2018 at 15:55 | comment | added | ayse | but what about the word vacant? /n/ precedes /t/ but it's a consonant. | |
| Dec 3, 2018 at 15:48 | history | answered | Sir Cornflakes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |