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Re: Dropping parts of the root.

From:Mangiat <mangiat@...>
Date:Monday, July 16, 2001, 18:49
It seems it didn't go through...

> Hi, folks! > > We all know about agglutinating and inflecting languages where morphemes
are
> added to a root to change its meaning or function in the sentence. I was > wondering: are there instead natlangs marking a morphologic feature
deleting
> a part of the root? The only one I can think about is French. From the > infinitive _rendre_ /R6~dR/ we get _je rendais_ /ZR6~'de/ in the
imperfect,
> but _je rends_ /ZR6~/ in the present tense, dropping /d/ because of > historical trivia; or the way it marks masculine adjectives, that is often > dropping the femminine last consonant - we discussed it some months ago, > remember? > > In Draseléq (P. Flores' best conlang) the verb shows a consonant (Extended > Stem Consonant) in some inflected forms, while in others it is dropped: > > drasten 'to cross' > dras 'he/she/it crosses' > drasut 'we cross' > draster 'you (pl) cross' > drasek 'they cross' > > Are there natlangs showing such a strange arrangement? And how did they > develop it? > > Thanks in advance, > > Luca > >

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SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY <smithma@...>