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Re: loglang vocab again

From:Christopher Wright <faceloran@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 21:11
Garth Wallace palsalge
>Wait...how can a tone be a morpheme by itself?
A bound morpheme, a suprafix. Consider English "contrast (v.)" versus "contrast (n.)". What's the difference? Stress. (Perhaps it should take up gardening, yoga, or Feng Shui.) In a tone language, you can't use stress, so you use tone instead. If you can nominalize a verb with a stress change, why can't you do other things? Must it always be derivation rather than inflexion? No, you could have a tone or stress alteration indicate a case or number for a noun, person or number or tense for a verb. Isidora Zamora palsalge
>What is a loglang, anyway?
I think I know, but I'm probably confusing philosophical languages with loglangs.

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