Re: 'Yemls Morphology

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 19:56:40 -0500, Thomas R. Wier
<artabanos@...> wrote:

>Jeff Jones wrote:
>
>> >| 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.
Thomas,
I forgot to mention that one place where the stress could be a problem is
in the aspect and tense combinations that I posted recently, particularly
some of the causative and resultives. Some examples:

Us'Kar [xOs'kEgUr]
Us'Kaf [xOs'kEgUf]
Us'Kam [xOs'kEgUm]
Us'Kxr [xOs'kESIr]
Us'Kxf [xOs'kESIf]
Us'Kxm [xOs'kESIm]

The latter 3 constrast with instantive forms which stress the [I] in this
case. Possibly I could change these to:

Us'Kar [xOs'kEgUlU]
Us'Kaf [xOs'kEgUfU]
Us'Kam [xOs'kEgUmU]
Us'Kxr [xOs'kESIlU]
Us'Kxf [xOs'kESIfU]
Us'Kxm [xOs'kESImU]

>Well, this post turned out to be entirely about phonology, even though
>you were discussing morphology. Oh well.
Perfectly OK -- it happens to me all the time.

Jeff

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