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Re: [txeqli] Correlatives



On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 04:08:39PM -0700, Rex May - Baloo wrote:
> You could be right, here.  But I feel like we need a short word for 'who'.
> Seems like most all languages have one.  "kwasa pe sta dor?' seems too long
> to me.  Kwape about right.  That's really why the compounds in most cases, I
> think.  Just to keep things terse.
> 
> What if we eliminated all noun-type compounds except the -vo series?
> 
> Kwavo sta dor?  What is at the door?  Unlikely meaning.  Probably Who is at
> the door.  And if that's okay, why not Kwa sta dor?
> 
> I am inclined to let the unadorned prefixes, kwa, ci, etc., able to stand on
> their own as equivalent to kwavo, etc., when there's no fear of confusion.
> 
> Civo bi kwavo? = Ci bi kwa?
 
If kwa, ci, etc. are made regular morphemes, then there's no problem
with them standing alone, forming a compound with anything, or being
connected with sa (for clarity).

I don't see a reason not to allow "kwafawl", for example, but if it
turns out that this word would sound odd when first uttered, it could be
said as "kwasa fawl" for clarity.

> > Or, perhaps there is no need for the <X-sa> forms, and <kwa>, <ci>,
> > <kul>, and so on, should be able to compound with any noun?

Does this imply that some words won't be able to compound with any noun?
That's a rather limiting stance to take this early in the language's
development.

-- 
Rob Speer