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Re: Verbs in Finlaesk

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...>
Date:Thursday, September 27, 2007, 13:10
Just a note: the -isk morpheme is usually reduced to -sk
in ON, so you'll get _skrælingskr_ and _vinlenzkr_,
and since language names are weak feminines you get
_skrælingska_ and _vinlenzka_.

Wow, I'm childishly fascinated by what the use of z
for ts and ds regardless of morphem boundaries
does for orthography...

Paul Bennett skrev:
> On 9/26/07, Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> wrote: >> On 2007-09-26 Paul Bennett wrote: >> > How much borrowed structure would seem naturalistic? Just >> > the bare minimum to restore the distinctions lost from ON? >> > Enough to impart all the distinctions in Ojibwe? What >> > about the other distinctions unique to Inuktitut (if and >> > when I get to studying them properly)? >> >> Having thought on it for five minutes I think that the most >> likely thing would be to use analogy and grammaticalization >> of ON-derived material to achieve a morphosyntax similar to >> the Skraeling languages, rather than borrowing morphemes. > > Borrowing morphemes is indeed fairly unlikely; my plan was indeed to > grammaticalize ON lexemes to "import" the "structure" of Skraelingisk > (which becomes hlálīkisj /Ka:li~kiS/ btw), i.e. "achieve" a > "morphosyntax similar to" > Skraelingisk. The real question is one of quantity, but given Michif > as a yardstick, I think pretty much anything goes. > > Having said that about borrowing morphemes, I'm tempted to borrow a > few monophonemic morphemes, such as '-s' to mark Obviative nouns, and > '-i' to mark dual number. My gut tells me this should be a fairly > plausible thing to happen. > > Speaking of changing language names, "fínlǣsk" no longer makes sense > given the amended sound changes. Something like "fínlātisj" > /vi:nlA~tiS/ is closer to the new truth. Is there an automatic (or > semi-automatic) way for me to rename pages and links on the Frath > wiki? > >> > The sound-changes seem to be close to something >> > aesthetically nice, but they've reduced the number of >> > conjugations much more than I was aiming for >> >> If it's any consolation I'm struggling with the same >> problems with Kijeb person markers -- and that lang is >> wholly a-priori! > > Yikes! You have my sympathies. That's not a very good sensation at all. > > > > > Paul > > >

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