Re: Terkunan: rules for deriving nouns, verbs, adjectives

Hi!

Jörg Rhiemeier writes:
>>...
>> The GMP currently cannot distinguish between morphological endings and
>> normal stem ends, because I was too lazy to program that.
>
> The GMP *should not* distinguish between morphological endings and
> normal stem ends (where they are word-final), because real sound
> changes *do not make such distinctions*. ...
>...
I suppose we do agree that language development may reduce affixes
more than stems.  English has almost no adjective endings anymore.  Or
the general plural in -s is a simplification of this kind.

If we talk exclusively about sound changes, you're right.  My Perl
script that implements the sound changes also implements some
morphological simplifications (when they are originally triggered by
sound changes and thus easily implemented there).  And for the script
to shift the words correctly, that Perl script needs a certain input.
I used 'GMP' as a synonym for that Perl script.  That might have been
confusing, because it does a wee bit more than just sound shifts.

**Henrik