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Re: Ablaut and Infix Origins

From:Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 12:22
Jeffrey Jones wrote:

> quoting Eric Christopherson >> Funny you'd mention that -- I finally got around to reading some of >> _A natural history of infixation_, by Alan C. L. Yu (Amazon: <http:// >> www.amazon.com/Natural-History-Infixation-Theoretical-Linguistics/dp/ >> 019927939X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203837054&amp;sr=8-1>). It >> talks about four origins: metathesis; entrapment; reduplication >> mutation; and morphological excrescence and prosodic stem >> association. > > Someone was kind enough to send me the whole text in a private email.
I'd like to get acquainted with this kind person, too.
> (and I personally find infixes completely unintuitive).
I have a causal infix -ra- in Suraetua which I think works fine. Most syllables in that language are CV, so it's usually easy to find a place for it. For example 'know' is SURE, and 'teach' is SURAE (the R is weak in final syllables). I think it's a useful tool that I'd like to know how to utilise more. LEF