On 16:34 Fri 31 Mar , ge wrote: > Your case can be easily solved with suffixes: > > pili/c > > SFX c Y 2 > SFX c ili inili ili # creates pinili from pili > SFX c li pili li # creates pipili from pili ... > For the second case probably a prefix solution is better as listed above. > Do not forget, that a suffix class can handle virtually any number of > variations.
Do you mean to have one rule under a given suffix class for every possible terminal string of any length? That doesn't seem realistic. The case of reduplicating a whole word is the best one to think about in terms of the theoretical point I'm trying to make - you'd need to copy the whole lexicon into the affix class! And that wouldn't even allow reduplicating words that are generated by other affix rules. Affixes are powerful, but unless you allow something like backreferences in the formalism, they can't handle the phenomenon that I'm describing. -kevin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
