Re: Ok, here we go

En réponse à Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>:

>
> Ahh yes, another part i needed to explain. There's actually a bit more
> to
> it actually. Here we go:
>
> -ng- infix appears between:
>
> 1. The initial vowel in vowel initial words, and the initial vowel is
> repeated after it. Written with the Latin orthography a hyphen is
> included
> to keep the root pronounced "whole":
>
> a + -ng- + akan (art)= ang-akan - artst
>
> 2. After the first syllable in consonant initial words plus the root:
>
> li + -ng- + ligas = linligas* - professional speaker
>
You mean that here the root is "ligas" or "liligas"?

> Hmmm actually this may not be an infix afterall. I might have to fix
> that.
>
Well, it could be described as two things:
- a prefix necessitating an augment in front of it to complete it, the augment
being a repetition of the first syllable (or maybe only the first
consonant+vowel of this first syllable, I don't know how it goes with closed
initial syllables, if they can happen at all),
- an infix going after the first vowel and necessitating to repeat the first
syllable after it.
In both cases, it means that the full form of the affix depends on the form of
the first syllable of the word. Hey, why not? :))

I personally prefer the second explanation, because calling something a prefix
when it's actually never the first thing in front of the word sounds a bit
strange to me. It may behave strangely by this phenomenon of reduplication, but
the term "infix" still fits better its behaviour than the term "prefix".

> * /ng/ will mutate depending upon the consonant it preceeds (actually
> all
> nasals will). In front of dental consonants it will become /n/, velar
> it
> stays /ng/, labial, it becomes /m/. This is reflected in the writing
> so
> linligas appears "irregular".
>
Well, actually it looks pretty regular to me :)) . Those alternations are
nothing that can be called "irregular", especially when they are purely
phonetic :)) .

> Some of the style typos are due to Word being tricky with me (oddly it
> wont let me keep certain sections at the top of a page, i think maybe
> because i have each section with different headings due to an eventual
> table of contents it will have (oh yeah, just a neat trick my friend
> taught me in Word).
>
Hehe, I know the trick you mean (at school I had to write my reports in Word,
because LaTeX wasn't installed on the computers :(( ). Needless to say, It's
nothing compared to LaTeX ;)) .

Christophe.

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