Re: THEORY: morphological processes

        Okay, sorry for the "test" e-mail, but I had a strange problem: I still
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you all :( ). David, do you have (or have you got, whatever you prefer :) )
any idea of what happened?

        Okay, now let's go back to conlanging...

At 16:34 19/01/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Hey.
>
>Here's something I've been thinking about for a while now. Many
>languages of the world show morphological processes which do not
>involve affixation of fixed material. These processes include:
>
        Okay, let's see what I can tell from my own conlangs. Of course, Azak is
out of question, as it is a purely agglutinative language with only
suffixation as a morphological process.

>1.      vowel ablaut
        In Reman, I use a kind of unproductive vowel ablaut for the dual of words
representing things that go naturally in pairs. Examples:
meni: hand -> mana: both hands -> menis: hands (more than two, or two but
not in natural pair)
ucil: eye -> ocel: both eyes -> ucile: eyes (more than two, or two but not
in natural pair)

>2.      consonant mutation
        Another abandoned conlang of mine was a Celtic-like conlang, which used
spirantization of starting stops of words for plural, if I remember
correctly. I'm not sure of it however. I may have my notes about it
somewhere in my appartment :) .

>3.      root and pattern/templatic morphology
        I tried more than once Semitic-like conlangs, and even once a Romance
conlang with such morphology. I was too young though and it wasn't a
success :( .

>4.      reduplications of various kinds
        I use reduplication of the final syllable in Chasmäöcho for collectives:
fyong: tree -> fyongyong: forest.

>5.      truncation
        I'm considering using it, but I don't know how for now.

>6.      other kinds of stem manipulations such as lengthening,
>        shortening, and deletion of vowels or consonants
>
                                                        Christophe Grandsire
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