Fourth part of

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Fourth part of

• In-class activity 2

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Creating inflectional affixes
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Make up some inflectional affixes

• First, choose which number distinction(s) your
  language will have

Some examples
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Make up some inflectional affixes

• Second, make up an affixal signifier for each
  signified

• Then choose what type of affix it/they will be

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Make up some inflectional affixes

• My languages singular prefix will have the
  following signifier

/u/
/Y/
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Make up some inflectional affixes
IPA help

• Choose a word of your list of words to add your
  affix to

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Make up some inflectional affixes
IPA help

• Now crank it through your phonological system

å
u
n

n


/Yurun"ne/ _ åun"n one hunter
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Make up some inflectional affixes

• My languages dual infix will have the following
  signifier

/a/
/W/
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Make up some inflectional affixes
IPA help

• Choose a word of your list of words to add your
  affix to

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Make up some inflectional affixes

• Put the infix and the selected word together

• In this case, I will split the head of my
  compound word open and insert the infix

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Make up some affixesMy languages infixes

• Resyllabify the new word

O
N
O
N
N
C
O
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Make up some inflectional affixes
IPA help

• Now crank it through your phonological system

n
é
é
i
a
n
a
/"nanWaWi/ _ "nanéaéi two bread knives
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Make up some inflectional affixes

• My languages trial suffix will have the
  following signifier

/y/
-/s/
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Make up some inflectional affixes

• This is my fourth compound

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Make up some inflectional affixes
IPA help

• Now crank it through your phonological system

y
n
S
i
½
/"sinsi/ _ "ZynSi three cups
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Make up some inflectional affixes
IPA help

• Last, but not least, list your affixes and your
  new words

Affix type
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Now your language has a

• morphological system in addition to a
  phonological system!

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In other words
By the way, J.R.R. Tolkien also did this

• You have created a system that creates meaning
  and allows you to exchange messages! Imagine
  that!!!!! WOW!!!