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[lojban] Re: What do we call roots in other languages?




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?

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Daniel Brockman
daniel@brockman.se