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Just making sure this has a title. --- In westasianconlangs@yahoogroups.com, "habarakhe4" <theophilus88@h...> wrote: > In my holiday tradition, I am composing a conlang sketch for a friend > based on the visual and phonetic structure of her name. This is a > game that stretches my intellect and provides limits that I cannot > escape by the wave of a hand. > After rejecting a pure Semitic structure and the C+basic V structure > of Adunaic, I settled on the following schema: > Roots are consonants or solid blocks of consonants. > All grammatical variation is carried by > a. vocalic superfixes in which the vowel is the same in both parts > b. vocalic suffixes either between the root and the second part of > the superfix or after the second part of the superfix. > > Further emotional and intonal information is carried by consonantal > superfixes which surround the vocalic superfix and the vocalic > suffix. Here the consonants do not have to be the same. > > Thus the structure is: > A = vocalic superfix > B = vocalic suffix > C = consonant or consonant cluster > ACBA - verbal > ACAB - nominal > > Either of these patterns may become > D, F = other consonants; D, C, and F may or may not be the same. > DACBAF > DACABF > > Thus: > -l- ROOT: valley > -ili- the valley (Definite Singular) > ilia the valley (Subjective Case) > m-ilia-s the valley (Subjective Case)! > > milias (Subjective) > milies (Prepositional) > miliis (Possessive) > milios (Partitive) > milius (Objective) > Or verbally: > -mpr- ROOT: shine > -impri- will shine (future) > imprui you (sg) will shine > mimprui you (sg) will shine! > > Like vowels (ampraa I shine) are written double, but treated as a > single long vowel. > > ampraa I shine > amprua you (sg) shine > amprea he/she/it/they shine(s) > ampria we shine > amproa you (pl) shine > > > I am presuming that clusters such as -mpr- once had a vowel, but > strong initial stress on the prefixed vowel of the superfix reduced > it to schwa and then eliminated it.