Re: New Conlang: Terkunan

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 13:17:14 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Jeffrey Jones writes:
>>...
>> I have a question about verbs. It seems like the verb forms, since they
end in
>> {(a(r))} all come from the 1st conjugation infinitive, but the stress is
not on
>> the {a}. Was there a stress shift you didn't mention? Or did I miss it?
>
>You are absolutely right, I did not mention it.  Mainly because I am
>not fully satisfied with the current stress rules.  They are a bit
>inconsistent but if I try to make them consistent in a trivial way, I
>do not like them anymore.  So I need to find a consistent system that
>I like, and I need a conhistorical explanation for it.
>
>For the verbs, one could argue that most forms in the 1st conjugation
>have the stress on the syllable that is stressed in Terkunan now.  So
>I might need an explanation for why it is an epenthetic -r- that
>creeps in.
Getting back to the language .... in the notes on (ar) that pop up, the text
is truncated by the browser, which was misleading me about when the -r-
occurred. The source says "'ar' dropped when adjacent to a vowel; consonant
dropped when adjacent to a consonant; nothing dropped when emphasized",
suggesting that -r- is kept only when emphasized. This seems to be different
from "All verbs but auxiliaries end in -ar before vowels.  Some auxiliaries
drop the final -a instead before vowels." which says nothing about emphasis.

BTW I just started another romlang myself: Lethin or project YARLO.

Jeff

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>
>**Henrik

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