Re: Can realism be retro-fitted?

Eric Christopherson wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:52 PM, Herman Miller wrote:
>> The infixes could be interesting to work out (how do infixes get into
>> a language, anyway?). But even so, the details of the morphology and
>> syntax are likely to be more easily managed than the phonology.
>
> See chapter 5 of
> http://home.uchicago.edu/~aclyu/papers/NaturalHistoryofInfixation.pdf .
> I just found this and am very excited to read it, because I've been
> wondering for a while.
How about that! I'll take a look at this; I'm sure I'll get some ideas
from there. I've used infixes in other languages (including Rynnan, the
Elvish language I mentioned in a recent post), but never considered
before how they might have arisen in the natural course of the history
of a language.