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Controversial points in the morphology

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> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:19:13PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> >
> > The PEG has evolved since then. :-)
>
> So you've limited things to four consonants?

In effect, yes (excepting cmene and type-3 fu'ivla). But what
actually did is limit clusters to a single consonant plus an
initial cluster, which ends up being a maximum of four consonants.

The initial cluster is not _arbitrarily_ 3 consonants long either.
I use practically the same old rules with a minor new restriction.
The limitation ends up being three consonants because I don't
allow a consonant after an affricate initially (affricates are
tc, ts, dj and dz). It makes little sense to forbid initial
{tl} but allow initial {tsl} for example.

> > > As I've said elsewhere, I'd like to see limitation to triples
> > > except, where syllabic consonants don't count.
> >
> > But triples is totally arbitrary. I don't like unsubstantiated
> > restrictions.
>
> And 4 is less arbitrary than three becaaaaause...?

See above. It's not any four that are allowed either.

mu'o mi'e xorxes




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