Re: Norreyna again (long-ish)

--- Dan Jones <feuchard@...> wrote:
> Due to a widespread frenzied clamour (well, Aidan
> asking quite politely) I'm posting a grammar of
> Norreyna.
   Thanks Dan!! I'll comment later.

   Right now I have a pressing question for you folks:

   In any conlang that develops from roots, how do you
get from a bare root to a specific root? Maybe an
example would explain better:

   If I have the root SIW, which indicates the idea of
following, how do you derive the noun meaning
'travois'? I want to avoid Tolkien's method (using the
same suffixes over and over so that all the nouns end
in -wa, for example). How about verbs? Adjectives?

   I'm also trying to figure out how to do plurals -
some are in -a, some are via umlaut. Just a
strong/weak distinction in the protolanguage? I really
like, and want to be able to do, tracing various forms
back to the proto-language, i.e. I want to be able to
show how the dative case arose from the noun-root and
this other root "xyz".

  Thanks in advance for your ideas.

   Aidan

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