From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Oct 06 13:01:31 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:01:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KmwGp-0007VK-2J for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:01:31 -0700 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.191]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KmwGh-0007Uj-R0 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:01:31 -0700 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so2520434fks.2 for ; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:01:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=GAuxQrn2r04os7zTP5suFZJoVlkc14RdDfc2QyZ2SG0=; b=cZgwZooizckIslWb+VGIeNtR5Ds5+AxerfiPDInCEsxmU2MHklT2tcZj/WT/XNNq4I 7+b0Ksk+Pqfn3E+44oxaKE5avIuuemojqbqAl1q6WMWUMEuNuOPG/xByq3rPjnEBgXZq 7HhnWlZMBgK+ruOuk3lm8rJBGSus7XyRptkiQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Fjbol0vUaCM2eZCrnubRigKysS2iPcRDEJY4Y7ZAdPsXOpnJPspbsP5tYjwxK3NXc8 ttNJyAZH8wqIJDx2uh56Efl2ajQagVAJdM0Ib5V6kmtXSEHibVvw7Tm9mMVzwXaSIfA8 Y/4enmARPtF3dtP/NRhFgBgZvVyCBhYoMuXZU= Received: by 10.180.245.6 with SMTP id s6mr4157350bkh.39.1223323281690; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:01:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.231.19 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:01:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 22:01:21 +0200 From: "Daniel Brockman" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: What do we call roots in other languages? In-Reply-To: <200810051859.21304.phma@phma.optus.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_58358_23860679.1223323281687" References: <200810051859.21304.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3887b93cf6a86ec0 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14824 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: daniel@brockman.se Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list ------=_Part_58358_23860679.1223323281687 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline > Take, for example, the word "activations". It consists of a root, "act", > three > derivational suffixes "ive", "ate", and "tion", and an inflectional > suffix "s". The root and derivational suffixes together are called the > stem. > > By this terminology the word "nuntolcadgau" has a root "cadgau", two > derivational prefixes, and no inflectional affixes (such morphemes don't > exist in Lojban). I agree it makes sense to consider -nun- and -tol- derivational affixes, but wouldn't {cadgau} be a compound of two roots, rather than a root? -- Daniel Brockman daniel@brockman.se ------=_Part_58358_23860679.1223323281687 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

Take, for example, the word "activations". It consists of a root, "act", three
derivational suffixes "ive", "ate", and "tion", and an inflectional
suffix "s". The root and derivational suffixes together are called the stem.

By this terminology the word "nuntolcadgau" has a root "cadgau", two
derivational prefixes, and no inflectional affixes (such morphemes don't
exist in Lojban).

I agree it makes sense to consider -nun- and -tol- derivational affixes,
but wouldn't {cadgau} be a compound of two roots, rather than a root?

--
Daniel Brockman
daniel@brockman.se

------=_Part_58358_23860679.1223323281687-- To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.