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Re: Keeping Track of Ambiguity in your Conlang?

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Sunday, September 1, 2002, 15:02
Pavel Iosad scripsit:

> Um, I may be wrong here, but what I've learned is that this is called > conversion and is essentially derivation by means of phonologically > empty suffixes.
No, no, no, you've got it all wrong. It's phonologically empty *prefixes* that we use. Two of them. :-)
> But then, I'm not going to learn English at University - I'll be taking > Swedish as my first language :-)
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