Re: CHAT: query: where to start?

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, J Matthew Pearson wrote:

> Speaking of non-concatenative morphology, I've recently begun toying with a new
> scheme for marking certain cases in Tokana.  Currently, the dative case is marked
> by adding "-i" (/j/) to words ending in a vowel and "-e" to words ending in a
> consonant:
>
>   Absolutive   Dative
>
>   tomla        tomlai [tomlaj]    "mountain"
>   uosu         uosoi [wosoj]      "pebble"
>   esian        esiane [ESjanE]    "name"
>   totsat       totsate [totsatE]  "table"
>
> Now I'm thinking of changing things so that the dative is always marked by an
> "-i" glide, which gets added to the end of a vowel-final stem, and before the
> final consonant of a consonant-final stem (infixation):
>
>   Absolutive   Dative
>
>   tomla        tomlai [tomlaj]    "mountain"
>   uosu         uosoi [wosoj]      "pebble"
>   esian        esiain [ESjajn]    "name"
>   totsat       totsait [totsajt]  "table"
>
> Not sure if I'll go with that or not, though...
Go for it! I'm still smarting from your abandonment of reduplication
in Tokana; it'd be nice to see some noncat morphology again ... :-)

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga
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