Re: infix

Matt Arriola wrote:

>AFAIK, what you're describing here is ablaut. Semitic languages make
>use of this extensively.
>
>On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:44:32 -0500, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...>
>wrote:
> > I'm working over a new project but I'd like to know something:
> >
> > my words beggin with a consonant and it are always CV, CVC, CVCV, CVCVC
> > etc...
> >    (C can be a consonant or an affricate, A can be a vowel or a
>diphtong)
> >
> > In my conjugation, all the verbs must have /a/, /o/, /E/, or /e/ as
>first
> > vowel
> >
> > To turn the verb to past or futur, I simply diphtong that first vowel,
>it
> > turns to /U/ on the past and /I/ to futur
> >
> > /zanog/ = to sleep
> > /dZ2Su/ = masculine, singular, 1st-person, intransitive-subject,
>experiencer
> >        (all pronouns vary on these 5 things)
> >
> > I sleep = /dZ2Su zanog/
> > I slept = /dZ2Su zaunog/
> > I'll sleep = /dZ2Su zainog/
> >
> > I'd want to know if it is really an infix because I'm not sure that
> > diphtonging a vowel is called an infix :-|
> >
> > I prefer to call things by their real name and I don't want to call it
>an
> > infix if it is not :-P
> >
OK thanks

an ablaut, a vocalic alternance right?

I never used that kind of inflection

I'll try to use new types of inflections I never used :-)

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