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Re: Polysynthetic nouns

From:william drewery <will65610@...>
Date:Friday, June 4, 2004, 8:15
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> > From the abstract, I have the impression that > Tariana has both, > suffixaufnahme as I have demonstrated in Old Albic, > *and* > what you describe. > > Greetings, > > Jörg.
Modern Arabic has a literary device by which it juxtaposes synonymns or near synonymns that share similar word-shapes. I wonder if one could require all nouns within a noun phrase to be of the same word-shape? Do you use cognate objects/subjects in Old Arabic? I think that doing so combined with suffixaufnahme could be turned into a kind of noun incorporation simply by dropping any anaphoric or contextually unnecessary items and slurring the whole predicate into one utterance. The cognates would then be reduced to reduplicatin of the verbal root, and the morphemes the carried by virtue of suffixaufnahme would become verbal infixes. I mention this, becase I think that's the route i'll take in my conlang. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/