Re: Radical-Metathesis

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:25:28 +0100, Mr Veoler wrote:
>John Vertical wrote:
>> I'm not so sure about juggling *everything* around - I assume you have a
>> lot of ablaut too, as per course for triconsonantal systems?
>
>Yes. At least I excluded consonant mutation from the soup. :)
That would indeed be ouchy. But I suppose, if it's perfectly internally
consistent (no "women, fire & dangerous things"-style semantic
generalizations), it would be stable enuff.

BTW, if you do end up standardizing the roots' permutation, I'd expect
something based on sonority considerations rather than alphabet order?


>> 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.
>
>Sketch 8.2.1
Humm, I can see numbering untitled sketches, but do you really need a
*three*-tier system to keep up? Does that include a version number? :)

>uses a CC root, with a third consonants indicating the main part
>of the valency. Something like that? Or do you mean the third consonant only
>appearing sometimes? Or anywhere in relation to the radicals?
>-- Veoler
No, it's an inherent part of the word all right, it's just a non-continuous
root. So it's not just affixes getting in-between, the parts' order is
mutable, I suppose the CV part might even encliticize onto verbs /
adjectivs. I'm currently planning on having OVSO word order. ;)

John Vertical