Re: New Conlang: Terkunan

Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Dirk Elzinga writes:
> >...
> > "... the derivational system of Terkunan is still productive. It works
> > agglutinatively, and stems never change when affixes are added."
> >
> > So what happened to all of the nifty stem changes from Latin?
> > (scribere ~ scriptura, etc) I think it's a shame that it's gone, and
> > also to my mind, slightly unrealistic.
>
> Indeed, all gone.  Same for the verbal system: all morphology gone.
Like Dirk, I'm a lover of the Latin system, but it IS your work....

One way around the "problem" might be to distinguish original/inherited
forms from later "learned" borrowings; I guess "scriptura" would be one of
those; and all those verb forms < -cipere, **-sequere etc. will be original,
but the derivs not??? so you might still have alternants like Span.
recibir::recepción etc. (Or maybe not..........)

The one thing that did raise my hackles a bit was "mis" for 'we, us'
:-(((( otherwise I too quite liked the sound of the Paternoster.

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