Re: basic morphemes of a loglang

On Saturday, November 29, 2003, at 12:56 AM, John Cowan wrote:

> Ray Brown scripsit:
>
>> The phonotactics of my BrSc version A gives the language an upper limit
>> of about 2400 morphemes.  If I could be persuaded that was adequate
>> (or more than adequate) I'd stick with it.
>
> I think it probably is enough if there is an escape mechanism for
> including
> borrowings:
That could be a problem.  That's why I'm still experimenting with BrScB as
well
as BrScA.

> Lojban has about 2000, and it certainly could be leaner if
> the words were shorter; Lojban has somewhat less,
? Is one of the Lojbans intended to be Loglan?

> and Gua\spi about the
> same.  All of these have machinery for borrowing, however.
Just out of interest - How was decided what the list basic morphemes
should be
in Lojbab?  (I don't mean the derivation algorithm for deriving the
morphemes
from the 7 (?) input natlangs - but the list of actual meanings that needed
to be morphematized).

Ray
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