Re: Lexical Relatedness Morphology (wa Re: [Conlangs-Conf] Conference Overview)

On 5/9/06, Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...> wrote:

> Another thing was that I had always been interested in being able to
> combine segunakar to build up fine distinctions of meaning - hence the
> system of ranks. This has had some interesting consequences. For example,
> my translation for the Primordial Soup relay contained the sequences
>
> ut-     omb
> at      around
>
> and
>
> eb-             gri-    am
> contact above   destination
>
> I had intutitively thought that the "ebgriam", meaning "to a position on
> top of" would be fairly transparent, and that "utomb", meaning "composed
The three ranks of segunakar equivalent
to spatial adpositions or locative cases seem
very similar to the way gjâ-zym-byn composes
its spacetime postpositions.

http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/gzb/grammar.htm#postp

gzb, however, forms its abstract postpositions
differently than Khangaþyagon's segunakar;
with content roots having one of the generic
spacetime postpositions suffixed to them.
Also, some relationships Khangaþyagon marks
with abstract segunakar are marked by suffixes
rather than postpositions in gzb: e.g. -na "made of",
-ta "without", -ja "according to, fitting".

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm