Re: USAGE: Miapimoquitch directionals

Quoting Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...>:

> On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 11:23  AM, JS Bangs wrote:
>
> > Dirk Elzinga sikyal:
> >
> >> Hey all.
> >
> > This is good reading, Dirk. [...]
>
> Thanks. A lot of what I know about lexical suffixes comes from Salish
> and Wakashan. In fact, a lot of current Miapimoquitch morphosyntax has
> Salish antecedents. I recommend Salish as a rich source of inspiration
> for morphosyntax (and phonology! but Salishan phonology is not for the
> faint of heart, and didn't provide any models for Miapimoquitch).
Have you ever taken a look at Algonkian languages? They're so
gratuitously morphological... they're great! Here's a sample
from a story we were reading in Meskwaki (aka Fox):

























































































                         e:hpa:hkisetawa:wa:ci
 e:h-[pa:hk-ise-t-aw]-a:-wa:-t-i
 AOR-[open-lay-INAN.OBJ-APP]-DIR-3pl-3-Aor.Conj
 "They laid it open."

(The bracketed bit there is the stem, the internal
structure of which is derivational, not inflectionally,
determined.)

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