Re: Some derivational types of questions

Steg Belsky wrote:
>
> On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 00:43:50 -0700 Clinton Moreland-Stringham
> <arachnis@...> writes:
> >     What do I do with the tense liquids (represented in the books by
> > R
> > and L, as opposed to normal r and l)? Would these develop any
> > different
> > than plain varieties? The tenseness is the difference between dentals
> > (R,L) and alveolars (r,l). How would they mutate over time? Anyone
> > have ideas, or examples from other langs?
> .
>
> How about having them become something interdental, possibly losing their
> approximant-ness?
>
> > as ae, pronounced like the vowel in French c'est. I'm not happy with
> > the
> > enormous number of homophones that are showing up! Anyone have ideas?
> >
> >     Thanks for your help, folks, ahead of time.
> >
> >     Clint
> .
>
> Why not go with the homophones?  You could have words that sound the
> same, but have archaic-spelling differentiation in writing.  Or, you
> could develop Chinese (IIRC) -like compounds for homophones, so, if for
> instance, the words for "fire" and "language" were homophones, you could
> have "hotfire" to mean "fire", and "speaklanguage" to mean "language".

Or, even more Chinese-like, you could invoke tone!  That could be lots
of fun.

Nicole
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