--- Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> > !aalza /||a:K\a/ squirrel > n!aalza /n'||a:K\a/
>
> Hmm, but for a lateral click the tongue is still
> mainly in
> (post-)alveolar position, only the click is then
> produced with the
> sides of the tongue. I think I'd use homorganic n
> in front of the
> click, so either alveolar or postalveolar, depending
> on where exactly
> the tongue is for the click. The way it is now
> seems strangely
> different from the other assimilations.
> Or maybe the click is totally different to what I
> think?
This is a good point, I have to think about this a bit
more.
> > The collective plural is relatively simple after
> all
> > that. It is formed with the prefix ba- /b_<a/:
>
> I like collective plurals. :-)
>
> Do you allow them to be applied more than once?
> Qthyn|gai allows
> stacked number endings to give you things like 'two
> swarms of locust'
> = 'locust-COLL-DUAL'. You could also have
> 'locust-DUAL-COLL-SING' =
> 'one group of two locusts' (actually, the inner
> collective suffix
> would be implied, it'd actually be
> 'locust-DUAL-SING').
More ideas! But..I think that that may become
potentially confusing, however it's worth a
thought...my mind has been pulling me in that
direction already
> > That's all we have so far, but others are planned.
> > These change the meaning of the verb considerably:
> >
> > di /d'i/ to be located, be at
> > lhdi /Kd'i/ to be scattered all about haphazardly
>
> Klingon?? :-)
Is this a Klingon-y thing? I wasn't aware.
> > lze'vi /K\E?v@j/ to serve, cook
>
> Why [@j]? You said this happened after uvulars.
You're right...this ought to be /K\e?v_>i/. I did
however forget the _> diacritic noting that the /v/ i
actually implosive.
>
> But beware: you and your co-worker please try not to
> be regarded as
> wackos by the other co-workers! :-)))
I'm glad you liked it. And I've been worried a bit
too. But we do work at "Language Analysis Systems"
most people here are linguists of some sort, so I dont
feel too bad about...even though I work on the less
linguistic-oriented side of the office.
!Elliott
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