Re: Keeping Track of Ambiguity in your Conlang?
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 31, 2002, 3:41 |
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Amanda Babcock wrote:
>Has anybody come up with a way of tracking accidental homonymy (due to
>inflections or compounding) in their conlang, short of devising an
>unambiguous scheme for its morphology?
>
A certain amount of ambiguity can arise in Kash causative verbs, due to
morphophonemic processes. The caus. prefix is /ruñ-/---
base-initial t, n, l and r all end up as /rund-/
base-initial p and m both end up /rumb-/ etc.
So far it hasn't caused any insurmountable problems......
A few 3 syl. forms ending in -mi (homonymous with the 1st.sing. poss.
suffix) have back formed bases (due to childrens' speech)--
compound sucami (su- 'water' cami 'sweet') 'soda pop' now usually suca.
kusimi 'a small cat-like animal that can become friendly, esp. towards
children' > popularly kusi
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