Re: Infixing in interlinears
| From: | Muke Tever <hotblack@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 17, 2004, 5:02 |
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On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:32:28 -0400, Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> wrote:
> Say there was a root fish, and to form the diminutive, the infix -il- was
> added, thus filish. In an interlinear translation, how would you indicate
> the "splitting" of the root fish, f-...-ish? "fish:diminutive:fish" is
> nonsensical, f'rex.)
I tend to use brackets. Thus the morpheme breakdown would be "f[il]ish"
and the morpheme translation would be "fish[diminutive]" or some such.
*Muke!
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