jmalonzo/tl-wordlist — Issue #1: Affix file improvements
Author: jmalonzo
Created: 2011-11-20 12:54:30+00:00
State: open

Courtesy of @kscanne.

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From: Louward Allen Zubiri
Date: Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: Corpus building for minority languages
To: Kevin Scannell

Lemme see. Sorry if I'm nitpicking.

SFX A 0 't a # simula't
SFX Y w 'y [^aeiou]w # ika'y
SFX N n 'y n # naman -> nama'y

Note 1: These are not suffixes but clitics. Clitics are generally
attaches to a wider range of words while affixes are usually
restricted to a particular natural class.

PFX A 0 han [aeiou] # pamilihan
SFX I 0 hin [aeiou] # kantahin

Note 2: In this example, is tagged as a suffix while is
tagged as a prefix. I find this a bit odd since both are suffixes.

PFX A 0 han [aeiou] # pamilihan
SFX A 0 an . # nahiwagaan

Note 3: and are generally considered as allomorphs.
is the root ends with a vowel and if the root ends with a
consonant. There's a also the rare found in select words like
from .

PFX N 0 nag . # nagayos

Note 4: Orthographically, no one would write , unless it is
an error. + can be written using a hyphen like in
or a space .

PFX M 0 ma . # mamuhay, mamili

Note 5:
ma + buhay -> nasal substitution ->
ma + bili -> nasal substitution ->

PFX P 0 pam [pbm] # pambutas
PFX P 0 pan [tdn] # pandamo
PFX P 0 pang [gngh] # panghiwa

Note 6:
N -> /_[+labial]
-> /_[+coronal]
-> / elsewhere

Combination of processes: paN + sulat -> pansulat -> panulat "thing
used for writing"

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I hope this helps you in some way or another.