PEG Morphology Algorithm
From: "Jorge LlambÃas" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>
> --- Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
>> Basically, a fu'ivla is any word that fits the definition of a brivla=20
>> (consonant cluster in first five letters, not counting y or '),
>
> (With John Cowan's consent) I extended the definition of brivla
> to "second consonant belongs to a cluster" rather than "cluster
> in first five letters". The restriction in the number of leading
> vowels is not well motivated. The number five just comes from the
> particular restrictions on the length of vowel strings of gismu
> and lujvo, but fu'ivla need not be so restricted.
>
>> In order to do the slinku'i test, we have to know what a lujvo is like.=
>> To=20
>> know what a lujvo is like, we have to know what a rafsi is like. Final=20
>> rafsi can be gismu, so we have to match against that, too. So, only to=20
>> separate words consistently in the face of fu'ivla, we have to implemen=
>> t=20
>> all of these concepts. So I believe further modularization is not=20
>> possible.
>
> Indeed.
Hmm. Consider the following passage from CLL (4.3):
All brivla have the following properties:
1) always end in a vowel;
2) always contain a consonant pair in the first five letters, where "y" and
apostrophe are not counted as letters for this purpose;
3) always are stressed on the next-to-last (penultimate) syllable; this
implies that they have two or more syllables.
I always assumed this to be definitive, rather than descriptive: that any
word having all these characteristics is defined as being a brivla; not that
this happens to be true as a consequence of other rules. I also believed
that any brivla that didn't match the pattern of a gismu or lujvo was
defined to be a fu'ivla.
Are these things true or not?
Clark