Re: Linguistic term for ease of changing word-class (was: 'out-' affix in conlangs?)
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 19:42 |
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On 8/12/08, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> > With all respect to Priscian, Donatus and the guys
> > I always found "part-of-speech" a silly term.
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> Agreed. It's both unwieldy and misleading; makes one think the intent
> is phonemes or phones or something.
In gzb a literal translation of "part of speech"
would yield gjâ-θy, language-element, which is
actually lexicalized as meaning "morpheme".
(Phoneme is fĭ-θy "syllable-element";
word is twâ-θy "sentence-element".
"Part of speech" would be ĉĭ-twâ-θy
"kind-sentence-element", I reckon.)
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Jim Henry
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