Re: Arabic affixation

On Monday, February 9, 2004, at 05:55  PM, Adam Walker wrote:
> Thanks.  I borrowed ni- from one of the passive
> constructions in Hebrew to be the standard passive
> affixe for C-a so you have _amans_  loves vs. _ñamans_
> is loved or _naxins_ births vs. _ninaxins_ is born.
> I also decided to make reflexives by prefixing xi-
> (derived from Latin _se_) instead of suffixing it as
> in other romance langs.  Though I made that choice
> when C-a was SOV and now that it's VSO I'm not as sure
> it fits.  We'll see.
> With ni- and xi- already being prefixes I'd hoped to
> find a bit of Hebrew/pseudoPunic morphology to prefix
> for the causative, but alas and alack.  Well, there
> are other options to explore . . .
> Adam
If you're already using those, i'm sure something like |hi-| from the
|hif`il| paradigm would be fine.  Or maybe something like |shi-| or
|sha-| (with /S/), from the sub-paradigm |shif`eil|.  Or |s(V)-| i
think is used in the Arabic cognate forms.


-Stephen (Steg)
  "aru."

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