Re: Dropping parts of the root.
| From: | SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 16, 2001, 19:10 |
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Mangiat wrote:
> > 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?
Most definitely. This is usually called "trucation".
In the Uto-Aztecan languages Papago and Pima, a verb
forms the perfective by truncating the word: neid > nei 'see', maak > maa
'give', nolavt > nolav 'buy', etc. Sometimes a VC sequence is removed
instead of just one phoneme.
Marcus
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