PEG Morphology Algorithm
> 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 is true (I changed 2 slightly to "its second consonant is always
part of a cluster", but the point is the same). Those are properties
that all brivla have, but not everything with those properties is
a brivla.
> 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.
No, that's not the case. For instance: {tosmabru}, {slinku'i}, {kniku},
{loertu}, {bytumi} all have those properties but are not brivla.
> I also believed
> that any brivla that didn't match the pattern of a gismu or lujvo was
> defined to be a fu'ivla.
That's true, but only because gismu, lujvo and fu'ivla are all the
kind of brivla there are. You first need to find if it's a gismu,
a lujvo or a fu'ivla, and only then can you conclude that it's
a brivla. You can't start with brivla without detecting the others
first.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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