Re: basic morphemes of a loglang

On Sunday, November 30, 2003, at 04:40  AM, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Steg Belsky wrote:
>> Rokbeigalmki has aspects of this kind of stuff.  For instance, there
>> are certain word-final consonants that are heavily associated with
>> certain classifications: /d/ sentient (mald=human), /l/ animal
>> (beijambal=bear), /s/ plant (ghoumfes=wheat), /t/ time (seflat=night),
>> for example.
>> So sometimes you get the same root with different suffixes:
>> slyithl = snake
>> slyiths = honey locust tree
>
> Could it be a vestige of a gender system?
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Hmmm... possibly... although it's only left on the nouns.  Would it
make sense that there used to be whole nother series of pronouns, which
ended in |s|, |l|, |t|, |dh| (agent noun), |d|, instead of just |z|
(subject) and |sh| (non-subject), and then they all just fell out of
use?

So for instance, where 'today' you'd say:
slyihths-a suddamet uhz. /slj1Ts?a suddamEt Vz/

In Proto-Rokbei-Drughu it could have been something like:
sluyithus 'a'a su:s-damet @:s. /slujiTus ?a?a su:s damet @:s/

And then the |s| of the adjective marker merged with all the other
adjective markers into |d|, and |s| of the pronoun into |z|, and the
|s| at the end of the noun stayed, semi-productively.

Hmmm...


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