Hello Mr Stutter! Thank you for your interest and compliments.If you want to learn Olesi, you should use this site:http://learnolesi.wikia.com/wiki/Olesi_Wiki ...
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John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Feb 1, 2011 8:01 pm
Or is it just me? John Vertical...
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Carsten Becker
carbeck@...
Feb 1, 2011 8:07 pm
... My Firefox doesn't want to open the page either, though. Carsten ... -- Ayeri Grammar (under construction): http://bit.ly/9dSyTI (PDF) Der Sprachbaukasten:...
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Sylvia Sotomayor
terjemar@...
Feb 1, 2011 8:16 pm
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/frathwiki.com Down for everyone, it seems. -S ... -- Sylvia Sotomayor The sooner I fall behind the more time I have to...
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Patrick Dunn
pwdunn@...
Feb 1, 2011 8:30 pm
Now that I'm getting up to speed with noun incorporation, I'm wondering about the origins of infixes. I'm having a hard time imagining a scenario that would...
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Wm Annis
wm.annis@...
Feb 1, 2011 8:43 pm
... Reanalysis of an affix sequence that ceased to be transparent. For all practical purposes, Navajo subject and object marking is by infixing. In reality,...
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Logan Kearsley
chronosurfer@...
Feb 1, 2011 8:44 pm
... Metathesis. Ablaut. Assimilation followed by loss of the original affixes. Splitting up long words with modifiers (like "abso-freaking-lutely"). -l....
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Alex Fink
000024@...
Feb 1, 2011 9:06 pm
... Have I got the paper for you. :) http://www.arthaey.com/conlang/papers/Natural%20History%20of%20Infixation.pdf Alex...
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John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Feb 1, 2011 9:12 pm
... And perhaps reduplication. Suppose *waduwadu > *wadwadu > wabadu. Voila, a -ba- infix! Getting this generalized to any extent might be a pain however....
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Patrick Dunn
pwdunn@...
Feb 1, 2011 9:29 pm
There's fascinating stuff in that paper Alex sent about Homeric infixing, which is including a syllable -ma- after a trochaic foot (as in, "saxa<ma>phone," as...
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John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Feb 1, 2011 9:29 pm
... Ha, thanks. Another one of those useful little webtools that you don't even realize you had been needing :) John Vertical...
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David Peterson
dedalvs@...
Feb 1, 2011 9:42 pm
... Hey, that was my GSI at Berkeley! He's a good guy. While I was there, he had actually just done a little research into Flanders' diddlyspeak* (from the...
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Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Feb 2, 2011 6:18 am
... That last one is sort of begging the question, I think (and ablaut almost is, IMO, although ablaut is not the same as infixation). I'm not sure how...
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Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Feb 2, 2011 6:29 am
... Yu calls that "reduplication mutation" and (IIRC) posits that mutated certain mutated reduplicants spread through analogy and cease to be reduplicants. A...
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Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Feb 2, 2011 6:47 am
Univerbation -- merging of several morphemes into one, or at least into one word -- seems to be pretty common. How commonly does the opposite happen, and what...
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Patrick Dunn
pwdunn@...
Feb 2, 2011 7:41 am
Mm, I'm not sure. Expletive infixation in English only occurs between metrical feet. I'm not sure morpheme boundaries, other than insofar as they impact...
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Garth Wallace
gwalla@...
Feb 2, 2011 8:33 am
... At least in the case of "-coholic", I'm pretty sure that's due to the portmanteau "chocoholic" causing it to be re-analysed. "-dar" I'm not so sure has an...
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And Rosta
and.rosta@...
Feb 2, 2011 9:10 am
Both un-fucking-believable and unbe-fucking-lievable occur, at least across idiolects, so for some the criterion can be morphological rather than metrical (and...
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John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Feb 2, 2011 9:57 am
... word -- seems to be pretty common. How commonly does the opposite happen, and what sorts of environments does it happen in? ... like _(al)coholic_,...
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Peter Bleackley
peter.bleackley@...
Feb 2, 2011 10:17 am
... Metathesis could turn prefixes or suffixes into infixes. Take for example the following examples from Khangaþyagon ustra ya I build ustre ye you build ...
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Leila Kalomi
leila_kalomi@...
Feb 2, 2011 1:30 pm
Seems to be up for me and for DFEOJM.com now....
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Logan Kearsley
chronosurfer@...
Feb 2, 2011 3:29 pm
... There's "lidar", so at least 1. But that's more of an acronym that happens to share the same last three words than it is a re-analysis of "-dar". Sonar...
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Alex Fink
000024@...
Feb 2, 2011 3:42 pm
First off, in view of the amount you're flinging around morphemes, have you seen this? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1027635004816771728# ...
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MorphemeAddict
lytlesw@...
Feb 2, 2011 3:50 pm
Sonar as an acronym preceded radar. It was "originally an acronym for SOund Navigation And Ranging." According to Wikipedia, however,: During the 1930s...
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Alex Fink
000024@...
Feb 2, 2011 3:56 pm
... That's backward, sorry -- Ket was prefixing, is now suffixing. Alex...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Feb 2, 2011 6:44 pm
... Not me. TAKE is not Modern Greek and has its own spelling conventions, not least because the pronunciation of various letters is different. ... I was...
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R A Brown
ray@...
Feb 2, 2011 7:25 pm
... OK - but it is meant to be fairly faithful to classical Greek norms as regards spelling; and that certainly had no δζ. ... Ancient ἰατρός...
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Douglas Koller
laokou@...
Feb 2, 2011 7:29 pm
... From: "Alex Fink" <000024@...> To: CONLANG@... Sent: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 10:38:18 AM Subject: Re: Splitting of a word or...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Feb 2, 2011 8:16 pm
... I see. ... My question was more - is that /i.a.'tro/ or /ja.'tro/? ... Oh, quite - which is why I would have gone for something based on iul- rather than...
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Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Feb 2, 2011 8:26 pm
... Oh! Sadly, no -- I had bookmarked it a long time ago, but never gotten around to watching it. I must needs do that. ... [snip] ... True... I think my...
