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stevo wrote: > They are productive in Saweli. Whether they are in Latejami, I'm not so > sure, but I would use them as if they are productive. > I'm not sure what they would mean, though, which is the problem. > "Tesa"/ze(p) as 'to and' just doesn't make sense to me, although a > different gloss might. I thought maybe something like "P is added to F". And maybe "citesa" could mean something like "P is conditioned by A [or F?]"? Maybe "kavasye" would make sense? I could imagine it to be similar to citesye, except that the condition is explicitly true. If taken as a productive, semantically regular process, then "citesangye" shouldn't be able to take an inverse voice morpheme, unless it was bivalent, which also this, taken from Appendix C, implies: -tes true conjunctions (and, or, but, if, default = P/F-s) [w: and, no corresponding modifier] Maybe Rick kept "cidap" and "cites" as different roots due to the impossibility to define the relation? But it makes the process effectively nonproductive. -- Veoler (This has relevance to my own conlang since I want to implement conjunctions as words if the process is productive, and as morphemes if not.)