Re: infix

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
>

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