Re: Keeping Track of Ambiguity in your Conlang?

Zesefde Amanda Babcock  <langs@...> ta 2002.08.30. her 10:03:46 -4h:

> 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?
>
> Making it guaranteed-unambiguous only works for really regular agglutinating
> or isolating things, and I've always wanted to do something with lots of
> fusion and internal inflection.  I could accept a certain amount of
> ambiguity
> as naturalistic, but I'd want to keep it limited to a reasonable amount, as
> well as come up with likely paraphrases that the speakers would use in place
> of overly-ambiguous words.
>
> So I'd like to write something that would take the lexicon and apply
> every valid transformation to every word, recursive to several levels,
> and then find duplicates.  Has anyone tried this before?
Well I usually divide homonyme derived words with a vowel lengthening (my primary
derived words tend to be infixed) but I don't care about inflected homonymes.
There ain't so much in LW yet that it's confusable.
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