Talk:Conlang/Intermediate/Grammar/Forms

Beginner Words
It's a small point, maybe, but there appears to be a nascent discrepancy between here and there as to whether apophony and reduplication are kinds of affixation. In the Beginner treatment of derivational morphology, they are. That happened because I was trying to minimize technical terminology as much as possible there (having declared that as a Beginner goal), but I wanted to provide some interesting suggestions to get the reader's imagination working on kinds of stuff they could do. So I justified putting all the examples under the aegis of "affixes" by drawing on this table from Wikipedia. Of course none of the terms apophony, simulfix, duplifix should occur in the Beginner section &mdash; I believe I introduced affix only as the price for eliminating morpheme &mdash; but eventually, something somewhere should probably be tweaked for greater consistency between the two. --Pi zero (talk) 21:39, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I've made some changes with respect to this. What do you think? Ingolemo (talk) 12:15, 8 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Looks good to me. Reads smoothly, and lends additional coherence to the section.  --Pi zero (talk) 13:05, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Head/dependents
I've been considering, lately, what basic terminology the Intermediate level is failing to explain; things that really have to be explained or the Intermediate level section won't have done what it set out to do. After some thought I added agglutinative and fusional at Grammar#Morphology and Syntax. I'm thinking one might add a section to this page covering head, dependents, head-initial (right-branching), head-final (left-branching), head-marking, dependent-marking. In a theory-neutral sort of way. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 23:00, 16 July 2019 (UTC) – 00:29, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've ✅ a section defining most of these basic terms. Though (as usual for me) it really needs examples to be spiced up with examples from various languages.  I didn't get into head-marking and dependent-marking, though; this doesn't feel like the right place for that, and I now suspect its proper place may be at the Advanced level. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 14:44, 22 July 2019 (UTC)