Re: 'Yemls Morphology

En réponse à Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...>:

>
> >| An expressed subject is marked by lengthening the last vowel
> without
> >| changing the stress (see Vowel Lengthening), i.e. if the subject
> was
> >| originally monosyllabic, it remains unstressed. If the subject is
> >| qualified, the marker is added to the last qualifier. If the last
> word is
> >| not the head of the last qualifier (or the subject itself), a
> resumptive
> >| particle {?} is needed?
> >
> >Hmm, I have to read up on qualifiers before I try and answer that.
> >Anybody?
>
> I hope somebody answers. That's one of the shakier parts of the
> language.
>
I don't understand very well your sentence ("If the last word is not the head of
the last qualifier..."), but for what is worth, Basque only inflects the last
word of a noun phrase. It's sometimes the head noun, but in Basque adjectives
usually follow nouns, and thus it's quite frequent that it's an adjective that
is inflected instead of the head noun of the noun phrase.

>
> I like that. I vaguely recall starting a language years ago that used
> sibilant and nasal prefixes and infixes, but I'm not sure if it was
> for
> aspect, voice, or what. 'Yemls will have secondary aspects such as
> frequentive, conative, continuative (term ?), but I haven't decided on
> the
> specific prefixes yet. There will be other aspectual auxiliaries as
> well.
>
My Moten uses -s- as an infix, but also -d-, -f- and -v- :) . It has also the
suffixes -i and -n. And if you look at my page on the part about Moten, you'll
see a full page devoted only to the sound changes due to the presence of those
affixes :))) .

BTW, you should add the phonemic or phonetic realisations of your affixes. I
didn't keep your scheme of realisation and your language is quite difficult to
read actually :) . In fact, I'd like that to check whether you kept on with the
tongue-in-cheek humour that characterizes 'Yemls.

Christophe.

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