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Re: THEORY: morphological processes

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Thursday, January 20, 2000, 12:28
dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu writes:
>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: > >1. vowel ablaut >2. consonant mutation >3. root and pattern/templatic morphology >4. reduplications of various kinds >5. truncation >6. other kinds of stem manipulations such as lengthening, > shortening, and deletion of vowels or consonants > >I've always been interested in morphological processes like >these. My question is how many of you have included one or more >of these morphological processes in your languages? I'm >primarily interested in processes which alter the shape of the >stem (3-6), but I welcome discussion of any kind of process >which is not simply affixation of fixed material. Here are some >questions you might use to guide your responses:
Hmm lets see for Saalangal.... I can only really think of a couple of things really: In Saalangal, in the past tense, you repeat the first syllable of the word. For roots starting with a 'd', this duplification causes the 'd' to change to r. I lifted it from Tagalog which does the same thing ( dating - dadating - darating). In the conditional to make things a little more irregular, i have two forms: a is simply affixed onto roots starting with a consonant, BUT, with roots starting with vowels, the condidtional affix gains an 'h' after it: apaha - ahapaha, sila - asila. There are probably more things, but I'd have to look through all of my notes to find them (if I did indeed have anything more). ________________________________________________ It's worth the risk of burning, to have a second chance...