Re: MeloChalaka
| From: | daniel andreasson <danielandreasson@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 24, 2001, 9:44 |
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This delay when I'm posting is getting ridiculous.
David Peterson wrote:
> This could just indicate the opposite in this position.
> So, "niri" would be to sit, or to lie down. If you did this,
> then the prefix would be less transparent, and make this
> particular aspect more rich and unpredictable. Like take "in-"
> in English.
Exactly. I was going to suggest the same thing. This kind of
lexicalization is so much fun! You can come up with so many
unpredictable words, which just makes the language all so much
more realistic and natural.
(Although, the same thing gave me a headache when I was trying
to analyze the semantics of Chickasaw active alignment... :-P)
||| daniel