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Helmut Richter wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Nathan Sanders wrote:
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> > > You've left "base" out!
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> > True.
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> Who is going to fill the gap, then?
IIRC, Stanley Newman in Yokuts Language of California uses
"base" for a unit intermediate between root and stem. A
base is derived from a root (by changing the vowels), and
a stem is derived from a base by adding a derivational suffix.
Except that there is one affix, -in-, that can be suffixed before
base formation. Then a word is formed by adding an
inflectional suffix (which Newman calls "final").
Greg
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