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Re: Some derivational types of questions

From:nicole perrin <nicole.eap@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 3:01
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 -- nicole.eap@snet.net http://nicole.conlang.org