Re: infix

Nik Taylor wrote:

>Roger Mills wrote:
>> You have the general idea.  But the infix goes after the initial
consonant:
>> sulat 'write', s-um-ulat active focus, s-in-ulat patient focus
>
>Actually, before the first vowel, so that _alis_ (to leave?) becomes
>_umalis_, and _gradwet_ (to graduate) becomes _grumadwet_>

I'm not sure how the grammar books class it-- but I'd call um- a prefix in
the /alis/ case-- however, it could still be considered an infix, since
initial vowels have [?] onset (non-phonemic, but some would argue...) so
/?-um-alis/.  In some cases IIRC the glottal stop pops up in the
morphology-- like reduplicated (?)a?alis.

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