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The "'Urbi et Orbi' - Rule" Revisited

2006; Volume: 34; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

0092-2323

Joshua T. Katz,

Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

This paper reassesses the evidence for a phonological rule that the author proposed in 1998 to account for the sequence -rb- in four Latin words and the Umbrian cognate of one of them: urbs, orbis/urfeta, masturban, and BERBER. Many of C. Michiel Driessen's criticisms of this rule in JIES 29 (2001) are shown to be unfounded.