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MorphemeAddict@hidden.email wrote: > > I'm specifically concerned about the plural of "Larandugoni". Does it refer > to any French person or thing? It seems like it would just mean "Frenchness", > i.e., a quality, and persons and things are not qualities. > > Since the noun form is the quality/ability itself, and the non-noun forms > mean "having the quality/ability", how does one say the noun 'someone who has the > quality/ability'? > > Where does the plural prefix "li-" go when it's added to a word with another > prefix, especially "La-"? More generally, is there a prescribed order for > multiple prefixes? > Anything that appears between "la" and the classifier has only mnemonic value. Thus, "li" must precede "la": Lilarandugoni. I'm starting to think that the people associated with a location should have a separate classifier, such as "Laranbegi" for 'French person'. Any comments? As for someone who has the quality/ability, if the root has a noun meaning (such as 'duck'), then the "someone" is the noun itself. If the root is stative (such as 'cold'), the "someone" is 'cold one' and is simply the noun form. And if the root is verbal (such as 'teach'), then the "someone" is 'teacher' and is also the noun form. Can you think of any examples that can not be handled? > > There are no POS for the "tay-" deictics, although they exist for all the > others. > What does "POS" mean? The words "tayle", "taymo", "tayso", and "tayvi" are all in my copy of the dictionary. Perhaps I added them after the last upload. I know that I've made several changes and additions since then. Regards, Rick Morneau http://www.eskimo.com/~ram