| Summary: | One of the recurring problems facing the student of Old Tibetan is common "misspelling" involving not only word production rules but also case forms. Such misspellings result from the scribal practice of apparently failing to separate syllables that would be separated by the tsheg 0 in Classical Tibetan, e.g., the terminative form -Cu rjesu instead of rjes-su `afterward'.[ In this paper, these misspellings are examined in terms of Old Tibetan syllable structure and the syllable process of gemination. In Optimality Theory, there is an interaction between the ranking of the constraints: FAITHFULNESS, NoCoDA, and *COMPLEX.
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