Re: apostrophes in transliteration (stress in Tokana)

J Matthew Pearson wrote:


 > Ma uthme-na    ihai-t        halma
 > I  gave-to.the woman.DAT-the book
 >"I  gave the woman the book"

[snip]

 > So here's the solution I've adopted:  [...]
 > In cases where the suffixed pronoun is
 > merely forming a prosodic unit with its host, but does not bear a
 > direct syntactic relation to it, I will separate them by an
 > apostrophe.

I actually like the hyphen better here, as in French enclitics
like "vient-il?"

 > Ma uthmena ihai't halma.

   Ma uthmena ihai-t halma.

 > How does that sound?

I suppose you mean "How does it look?"  :-)

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