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Re: Tiki vocabulary

From:Carsten Becker <carbeck@...>
Date:Monday, April 10, 2006, 17:34
From: "Jim Henry" <jimhenry1973@...>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 6:20 PM

> On 4/9/06, Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> wrote:
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>> I wonder, >> though, how agglutinating/fusional languages deal with >> potentially ambiguous compounds of affixes and stems. > > Natural ones, or engelang/auxlang type conlangs?
Natural ones, e.g. Finnish, Turkish, ...
> In Greek a fair number of verb roots start with epsilon > (/E/), which for other verbs is a prefix indicating tense and > aspect (exactly which tense and aspect depends on the verb > endings applied). Those verbs lengthen the initial > epsilon to eta (/e:/) to mark those tense/aspects. I'm > not sure if there are any verbs with a stem starting with > eta but I suspect so.
Same here, basically. A verb like _mapa-_ (point at) would be _mamapa-_ in past tense etc., so *there* at least is no big problem. There may also be dialects that fuse these endings and have _mápa-_ instead. Carsten -- "Miranayam kepauarà naranoaris." (Kalvin nay Hobbes) Venena, Yangtim 9, 2315, ea 10:33:21 pd