Re: What're "agglutinating" and "isolating"? (was Re: Speedtalk attempts)
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 7, 1998, 5:05 |
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Herman Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Oct 1998 19:26:01 -0500, Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
> wrote:
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> > (I suppose one
> >could have _superfixes_ too, where the morpheme is a tonal change
> >rather than a segmental sound change, but that's more theoretical,
> >and AFAIK, no languages use this).
>
> How about:
>
> perMIT vs. PERmit
> proDUCE vs. PROduce
But those are just phonemic uses of stress. What a suprafix would have
to be is something like what Nik posted, where the supersegmental part
would be used in a regular way, even productive way. If you go look at
what he posted, the person-formation of verbs was indicated only by the
tone on the root. It was a productive paradigm, or at least ostensibly (as
we don't have more data than that).
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