Yeah, there is (will be :oops: ) an affix corresponding to each one of those slots. The root goes at the very beginning, before negative.
The ones down are kind of lists though, since you can't have more than one of the affixes in a column at a time.
So they're all suffixes. Gotcha.
Tolkien_Freak- 09-13-2008
Finally got the forms for affixes down:
NounsVerbs
Unfortunately, I haven't been really able to -*test*-('") them out, since I have 1 word of vocab as of now. If anybody knows of some short lists of essential vocab for new conlangs (as in 100-200 words), I'd like to see them.
Thanks. Those'll be really useful.
(Unfortunately, they all seem to have some unnecessary stuff - for example, the Swadesh list has stuff like 'louse' and 'snake' and 'sew' - that I was trying to find a list that leaves out.)
Sano- 09-13-2008
Thanks. Those'll be really useful.
(Unfortunately, they all seem to have some unnecessary stuff - for example, the Swadesh list has stuff like 'louse' and 'snake' and 'sew' - that I was trying to find a list that leaves out.)
Well, since you seem to have an idea of the types of words you want/need, why not edit those lists as you deem necessary?
No reason that you have to use the entire list.
Tolkien_Freak- 09-13-2008
Yeah, I can. It's just somewhat easier not to have to.
I think I'll post the edited lists somewhere...
eldin raigmore- 09-15-2008
If you have seven "slots" for morphemes (affixes and roots), and seven values for each slot, there could be 823,543 combinations if they were all completely independent; even if they weren't, there could be more than 625,000, couldn't there? And if there were six values for each slot, there could be 279,936 combinations if they were all completely independent; and even if they weren't, there still could be more than 225,000 combinations; couldn't there?
So why do languages need more than about 20 "slots"?
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