Re: Arabic affixation
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 9, 2004, 22:03 |
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On Friday, February 6, 2004, at 06:01 PM, Adam Walker wrote:
> Not sure how I'm gonna handle causatives yet. How
> does Hebrew do it? How about Ladino, Italkien or
> Yiddish.
Hebrew sometimes uses the |pi`eil| paradigm (properly the 'intensive',
not causative) and sometimes the |hif`il| (actual 'causative')
depending on the verb. Ladino and Yiddish work like Spanish and
German, respectively, as far as i know. I don't think that the
gemination of second root radical consonants would be something easily
transferable from tiriliteral-root-based Semitic languages to IE
languages.
-Stephen (Steg)
"the world is upside down."
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