Reconstruction challenge
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 14:26 |
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The table below shows subject/object prefixes for a fusional polysynthetic
language. Your mission, should you chose to accept it, is to find the
morphemes from which they are derived in the languages recent agglutinating
ancestor, and the sound changes that got us from there to here.
Subjects in rows, objects in columns. 1st person has inclusive and
exclusive plural forms, 3rd person has animate and inanimate forms.
Everything is in CXS.
intrans 1 1ex 1inc 2 2p 3an 3anp 3in 3inp
1 pi pesa pesQku pes&fi bwi bwena pyxu pyxona pimi pimna
1ex pyku pykosa pykosQku pykos&fi pygwi pygwena pikxu pikxona pykymi pykymena
1inc pfi pfesa pfesQku pfes&fi pfiwi pfiwena pfyxu pfyxona pfimi pfimna
2 Nu Nosa NosQku Nos&fi Nywi Nywena Nuxu Nuxna Nymi Nymena
2p Nona Nunsa NunsQku Nuns&fi Non&wi Non&wena NonQxu NonQxona Non&mi Non&mena
3an tu tosa tosQku tos&fi tywi tywena tuxu tuxna tymi tymena
3anp tona tunsa tunsQku tuns&fi ton&wi ton&wena tonQxu tonQxona ton&mi tyn&mena
3in mi rasa rasku ras&fi r&wi r&wena rQxu rQxona r&mi r&mena
3inp mena ransa ransQku rans&fi ran&wi ran&wena ranQxu ranQxona ranmi ranmena
Pete
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