Re: Radical-Metathesis

>To feed the list a little... My sketch 8.1.5 uses radical-metathesis,
>that is, the root have the shape CCC, and the order of the consonants indicate
>a morphological category.
>
>For example:
>
>rbl > rlb > railabi "know"
>rbl > brl > bairali "learn"
>
>Does it exist any natlang that exhibit this feature?
>If it does, are there any restrictions?
>If not, do you judge it to be unlearnable*?
>
>*as a productive pattern for a native speaker
>
>-- Veoler
I'm not so sure about juggling *everything* around - I assume you have a lot
of ablaut too, as per course for triconsonantal systems? - but I think a
system where one of the root consonants is a "class affix" (only an entirely
morphonological class) that could syntactically pop up in a number of places
would not be too far-fetched. I'm working on something similar currently.

John Vertical