From: "J Matthew Pearson"
> 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...
It's your lang, but FTIW I prefer the former (me, resistant to change). If
you like the latter, maybe you could throw in some semi-irregular forms that
do this ("esian" does it and "totsat" doesn't, and you just gotta learn it)?
Or an inland/outland split?
Kou