Re: Self-segregating Semitic Morphology

> This restricts the form of prefixes to VC{C}, and suffixes to {C}CV
> (although, if the clusters are allowed, you could have
> single-consonant infixes which hijack the already-present initial and
> terminal vowels as well). And it very nearly requires that you only
> use one or the other, but that is fixable by designating a consonant
> (or class of consonants) to mark the boundaries of an affix list (as
> discussed above); pick the clusters right, and that doesn't even
> require adding an extra syllable.
Addendum- you only have to bother with the root-boundary marking
consonants if you care about word-internal morpheme segregation. If
you only care about word-segregation, then that bit can be ignored,
which gives you a little more freedom with the forms of affixes.

-l.