[lojban] Re: affixes

[la arxokuna <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, June 2, 2013 11:05:46 PM UTC+4, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> I just pulled up [[Affix]] in Wikipedia and found out that something like the 
> rafsi of a gismu exists in natlangs. It's called a lexical affix and occurs in 
> Pacific Northwest languages. E.g. "sxene," is Saanich for "foot", and its rafsi 
> is "sen". Unlike Lojban, Saanich rafsi do not all have at least three letters 
> in common with their gismu. (The comma is a letter representing a glottal 
> stop.)
>
> So Lojban has these types of affixes:
> *Lexical affixes
> *Prefixes (derivational), e.g. "tol-"
> *Suffixes (derivational), e.g. "-bu'i"
> *Interfixes: "-y-", "-r-", "-n-", and "-l-"
> *Other affixes of cmavo, such as "jol", which is of a conjunction.
> How would you categorize the last ones?

Not taking self-segregating morphology and short rafsi into account doesn't German have the same lujvo-capability?

> Pierre
> -- 
> I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when I'm in Wales.

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