Re: Infixing in interlinears

Trebor Jung wrote at 2004-08-16 20:32:28 (-0400)

 > 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.)
 >

Well, the Leipzig Rules say


 | Rule 8: Infixes
 |
 | Infixes are separated by angle brackets, both in the
 | object-language text and in the gloss.
 |
 | (22) Tagalog
 |
 |  b<um>ili
 |  <ACTFOC>buy
 |  'buy'
 |
 | (23) Latin
 |
 |  reli<n>qu-ere
 |  leave<PRS>-INF
 |  'to leave'
 |
 | Infixes are generally easily identifiable as left-peripheral (as in
 | 22) or as right-peripheral (as in 23), and this determines the
 | position of the gloss corresponding to the infix with respect to
 | the gloss of the stem.


http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/files/morpheme.html
(The object-language text is given as graphics on that page, which
will be inconvenient for you personally, but the google cache of the
accompanying pdf should be readable in most cases)

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