Re: Self-Segregating Morphologies

> > A. Lojban Approach -
> Rather "Loglan/Lojban approach".
>
> > C. Ceqli Approach -
> This is the Gua\spi approach as well.
>
Correct, apologies to the authors of Loglan and Gua\spi.

> 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
Very interesting!  I couldn't seem to find this language on the web though.

 > > 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.
That example makes sense.  Certainly, ambiguity of the man(')s(-)laughter
sort
would be unacceptable in a logical language.  I will keep mulling this
over...
thanks for the input.

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