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On 5/7/06, And Rosta <a.rosta@hidden.email> wrote:
In the current state of my language, Livagian, the shape of stems is restricted only in that (i) every syllable bears level tone, (ii) the stem cannot begin with /r/. So the process for Livagicizing a name is (a) throw away any tone (which has the additional virtue of sparing the speaker from having to work out how to map tone in the source language to tone in Livagian), (b) add an epenthetic /y/ before any initial /r/, (c) add a final (nonlevel-tone-bearing) inflection indicating that the stem comes from the onomasticon instead of the ordinary lexicon.
How do you tell where the name begins? Jorge