17-11-2022, 03:25 AM
(16-11-2022, 08:27 PM)Hermes777 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This representation of a 'benched' gallows - the glyph [t]? - is intriguing, for example. What might it tell us about the phenomenon of 'benching' and the integration of the gallows into the text?
This split gallows structure seems most similar to one small but distinct group of words containing two gallows._Along with the various insertions of single gallows into [cheey] I listed earlier, there's also one token of [cTheety]. That could just be a one-off anomaly. The insertion of two gallows seems to become more common, though, when a similarly-formed word contains two [ch] benches in it._So, for example, we have:[chechy] 1*[kchechy] 0, but [kchekchy] 1*[cKhechy] 0, but [cKhecKhy] 1*[chkechy] 0 and *[chtechy] 0[chekchy] 2 and [chetchy] 4[checKhy] 46 and [checThy] 26_[chochy] 5*[kchochy] 0, but [kchokchy] 2 (one has a comma break: [kcho,kchy]); [tchotchy] 1[cKhochy] 1 and [cKhocKhy] 1; [cThochy] 1*[chkochy] 0 and *[chtochy] 0[chokchy] 14 and [chotchy] 11[chocKhy] 17 and [chocThy] 18_Along with [tchotchy], there's also one token of [tchotchey] (the gallows-less [chochey] doesn't occur, but [chotchey], [chocThey], and so forth do)._So with the "base" forms [chechy], [chochy], and [chochey], it seems as though a gallows at the beginning, inserted either as [tch]/[kch] or [cTh]/[cKh], tends surprisingly often to be combined with a second gallows positioned the same way relative to the second [ch] bench._The non-gallows part of the split-gallows structure shown above seem to read [cho.chey], with a space -- a sequence that, like [chochey] all run together, never occurs as such by itself. Despite the space, the split gallows suggests the two "halves" also somehow form a single unit, which makes me suspect the whole structure represents another word in the [chochey] group._So as [kchekchy] is to [cKhecKhy]and [kchokchy] is to [cKhocKhy],maybe [tchotchey] is to what we're seeing here -- equivalent to [cThocThey]?_(Sorry about the strange formatting; for some reason, my paragraph breaks in this post weren't "taking" as usual.)
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