diff --git a/grammar/src/morphology.md b/grammar/src/morphology.md index b2d305e..2cd105b 100644 --- a/grammar/src/morphology.md +++ b/grammar/src/morphology.md @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ # Morphophonology and Morphology As indicated earlier, there are three morphological classes of words: -• contentives (open class: the lexical words used to refer to the concepts being talked about in the utterance); -• inflecting function words (closed class; morphophonologically indistinguishable from contentives, but differing from the latters by having special effects on the surrounding syntax); -• indeclinable, uninflected function words, AKA particles (closed class). +* contentives (open class: the lexical words used to refer to the concepts being talked about in the utterance); +* inflecting function words (closed class; morphophonologically indistinguishable from contentives, but differing from the latters by having special effects on the surrounding syntax); +* indeclinable, uninflected function words, AKA particles (closed class). Function words are closed classes, i.e. they have a limited, restricted membership, no new members are added to them, or only rarely. diff --git a/grammar/src/phonotactics.md b/grammar/src/phonotactics.md index fae4c11..00af2c4 100644 --- a/grammar/src/phonotactics.md +++ b/grammar/src/phonotactics.md @@ -14,20 +14,20 @@ All words bear a pitch accent, or ‘word-tone’, which is a tone contour that /ʎi/ and /ɲi/ are not allowed, except possibly as allophonic realizations of /li/ and /ni/ respectively. Words never begin with a consonant clusters, with a few exceptions: -• /w/ may appear after certain consonants, and is realized as labialization of the preceding consonant. -• One of the Binding proclitics, the nasal proclitic /ʔm̩꞊/, realized as a syllabic nasal (a bilabial one most of the time) preceded by an unwritten glottal stop, can appear at the beginning of a word immediately before another consonant; the syllabic nasal assimilates in place of articulation with certain (not all) consonants: - ◉ coronal plosives and affricates (/ʔm̩꞊t/ → [ʔn̩꞊t]); - ◉ velar and uvular plosives (/ʔm̩꞊k/ → [ʔŋ̩꞊k]; /ʔm̩꞊q/ → [ʔɴ̩꞊q]). +* /w/ may appear after certain consonants, and is realized as labialization of the preceding consonant. +* One of the Anchoring proclitics, the nasal proclitic /ʔm̩꞊/, realized as a syllabic nasal (a bilabial one most of the time) preceded by an unwritten glottal stop, can appear at the beginning of a word immediately before another consonant; the syllabic nasal assimilates in place of articulation with certain (not all) consonants: +  — coronal plosives and affricates (/ʔm̩꞊t/ → [ʔn̩꞊t]); +  — velar and uvular plosives (/ʔm̩꞊k/ → [ʔŋ̩꞊k]; /ʔm̩꞊q/ → [ʔɴ̩꞊q]). The assimilation is shown in the romanized orthography: - /ʔm̩꞊takóju/ ↦ ⟪ntakóyu⟫. +  /ʔm̩꞊takóju/ ↦ ⟪ntakóyu⟫. The [ɴ] allophone is written ⟪ŋ⟫: - /ʔm̩꞊qakóju/ ↦ ⟪ŋqakóyu⟫. +  /ʔm̩꞊qakóju/ ↦ ⟪ŋqakóyu⟫. Similarly, the coda of the last syllable of a word never contains a consonant cluster. Consonant clusters may only occur across syllable boundaries, where two-consonant clusters and more rarely three-consonant clusters may occur. -⸨TODO: List allowed and disallowed clusters.⸩ +*⸨TODO: List allowed and disallowed clusters.⸩* ## Word boundaries