Controversial points in the morphology
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:55:33PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> --- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > 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.
You don't give any reason for this, just explanation of how it
works.
> > > > 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.
Still looks pretty arbitrary.
-Robin