Re: Verbs in Finlaesk

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)?
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> Yikes! You have my sympathies. That's not a very good sensation at all.
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