RE: VMs: comparison of word changes

["Brian Tawney" <btawney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Sorry to bring up Siouan languages again ... and with the same caveat that
> this is intended only as an example of linguistic phenomena ... but there
> are languages in which inflectional material is added medially.  For
> example, providing examples of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd persons, from
> Omaha-Ponca, a language I can inflect verbs in fairly well:

You don't even have to look that far afield.  Root words in Hebrew and
Arabic tend to be composed of three consonants with various suffixes and
vowels inserted or deleted for inflectional and derivational morphology.
The famous example is the Arabic root KTB:

Inflectional:
KaTaBa - he wrote
iKTaB - write!
aKTuBu - I am writing

Derivational:
KaaTiB - author
KiTaaB - book
maKTaB - library
maKTaBah - office

Brian Tawney



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