Re: THEORY: morphological processes

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).






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