Re: here is some stuff i want all of ya'll to look at even though

joshua tanaka <joshuatanaka@...> wrote:

>alyo, yeirgin os zhashyep
>greetings, name(my) is josh(stop)
>hello my name is josh.
It would also help to use hyphens within words in your
conlang text, and hypens in the same places in your gloss.
See the Leipzig rules:
http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/files/morpheme.html

For instance, you gloss "yeirgin"  as "name(my)" but
it isn't clear how or whether "yeirgin" breaks down into a root meaning
"name" and a possessive/genitive case prefix or suffix.
Is it "yeirg-in" or "y-eirgin" or "yeir-gin" or...?

Also, what is the "stop" morpheme?  After comparing
all your sample sentences, they all seem to have their
final word end in  vowel + [p/b].  Does the final word
of any sentence have to end in this stop morpheme?
What rules determines its varying form with different words?

You gloss "os" as "is".  Does it have the same form for all tenses,
persons, numbers, etc.?  If not, you should gloss it as something
like   be.PRES   or  be.3SG.PRES   or some such.


- Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry

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