Re: Degrees of comparation

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Nik Taylor wrote:
> > Actually, now that I think about it, maybe a *partial*
> > reduplication would be sufficient for that.
>
> Yes, I've made a decision, a CV- reduplication will be sufficient for
> "meaningless" reduplication.  Thus, the "meaningless" reduplication of
> mlál will be mamlál, of d'iá will be dad'iá, etc.
Interesting.  So it seems Uatakassí ranks contiguity of the reduplicant
segments vis-a-vis the template segments on which they're based rather
low, just like Phaleran:

    tlîna  'black bear'            titlîna  'black bears'  (not:  *litlîna)

What makes you decide that /a/ is chosen from the base in _dadiá_,
rather than /i/ (--> *didiá)? For my example, I suppose you could say
that /l/ is more marked than /t/, and therefore is less likely to be picked.
(To be honest, I also just liked _titlîna_ better, which is the special
privelege of the conlanger. To bad linguists can't do that.)

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