Re: 'Yemls Morphology

Jeff Jones wrote:

> That's what I thought. But it seems there is no clear boundary between the
> two. Japanese is considered to be inflecting while Turkish is agglutinating.
> In 'Yemls, the affixes are distinct in writing, making it agglutinating,
> yet their are interactions between affixes and stems at the phonological
> level. As for clitics, there is no difference from agglutinative affixes
> that I can see.
Usually the terminological difference depends on the scope of the
boundness that's implied.  While agglutinated affixes are bound both
phonologically and morphosyntactically to their root, clitics are usually
said to be bound phonologically, but not morphosyntactically. For
example, take the following line of Homeric Greek:

        Ho gar é:lthe thóas epì né:as Akhaío:n /
    lusómenós te thúgatra... (Il. I. 12-13)
        For [Kryses] came to the swift ships of the Akhaians /
    to free his daughter...

In the word _lusómenós_, the following _te_ (which is cognate and mostly
equivalent to Latin -que, "and") forces the second accent to arise, since
in Greek an accent must fall in the antepenult or after.  But the _te_ is not
bound to nouns only, as the following examples illustrate:

    Kalkhas Thestorides, oionopolo:n okh' aristos /
    hos e:de: ta t' eonta, ta t' essomena, pro t' eonta... (Il. I.69-70)
    Kalkhas son of Thestor, by far the best of dream-interpreters,
    who knows both what is, and what will be, and what has been before...

where _tá_ functions as a relative pronoun, and _pró_ as an adverb;

        ... ho d' Atreíde:n enarízoi, /
    ê:e khólon paúseien ere:túseié te thumón (Il. 191-192)
        ... while [Akhilleus] might slay the son of Atreus, /
    or he might put a stop to his anger and restrain his heart.

and _ere:túseié_ a verb, "to restrain, keep in check".

> >| 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.
It is highly unusual in the world's languages for phonemically long vowels
not to receive stress if stress is allowed -- vowel length attracts stress;
in Optimality Theory, this is known as the "Stress-to-Weight" Principle.
However, that is a statistical universal:  Hungarian is a counterexample
(of which, unfortunately, I have no current record with me to provide).
However, final syllables also tend in many languages to be extrametrical
(they don't count for purposes of stress), and so STW might not be a
problem for you.

Well, this post turned out to be entirely about phonology, even though
you were discussing morphology. Oh well.

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Thomas Wier | AIM: trwier

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