Re: Self-Segregating Morphologies

Mike S. scripsit:

> A. Lojban Approach -
Rather "Loglan/Lojban approach".

> C. Ceqli Approach - A single fricatives or stop, or a cluster of=20
> fricatives and stops, marks start of word; root extended freely by=20
> vowels, liquids and nasals.  Utterly simple.  This system lends=20
> itself ideally to languages of the isolating sort.
This is the Gua\spi approach as well.

The Xuxuxi approach uses stress and vowel harmony.  Polysyllabic words
are stressed on the first syllable and then go on up to and including
the first syllable that breaks vowel harmony; any following unstressed
syllables are monosyllabic words (particles).  The vowel harmony
table is thus:

1st syll        next sylls      final syll      harmony type
a               a,e,o           i,u             low
e,i             a,e,i           o,u             front
o,u             a,o,u           e,i             back

> Is it important to self-segregate the morpheme level, or is word-
> level self-segregation sufficient?
I think the importance of two-level self-segregation appears only
when you have a community of word-makers: it prevents gaffes like
man-slaughter being reinterpreted as mans-laughter.  (Bad example,
but I'm tired.)   Of course, if you don't admit compound words as
a separate type (as Gua\spi and Ceqli do not) then you need only
one level, the morpheme/word level.

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