Re: OT hypercube (was: Con-other)

Den 31. mai. 2008 kl. 16.50 skreiv Eugene Oh:
> How about words like "polymorphism", "obstructionism" etc. that do
> not go
> anywhere near faith/ideology? That was what I considered when I
> decided
> "-lios" was inadequate.

I guess what you need is a formant to turn an adjective into a noun
naming the tendency of displaying the property named by the
adjective, and/or to turn a verbal noun into a noun naming a tendency
of performing the action named by the verb that the verb is formed
from. At least I perceive polymorphism to be formed from polymorphic
and obstructionism to be formed from the VN obstruction (not the
concrete noun obstruction). Maybe you can do it with a habitual
particle combined with some nominaliser or other.

In Suraetua I would construct obstructionism from the verb inja,
'deny, obstruct', with a habitual particle an- and a verbal noun
formant -ju, thus aninjaju. Polymorphism I would construct from wala,
'many', misku, 'form, shape', an adjectiviser kar-, making
karwalamisku, 'polymorphic'. Then a verbaliser -wa and the habitual
particle again, making ankarwalamiskua (losing the w of the
verbaliser), meaning 'to display a tendency towards being
polymorphic'. And in Suraetua a verb ending in -a can be nominalised
without adding anything. The result is a little unwieldy, but
polymorphism isn't a straightforward concept to build from scratch.

LEF