Conlangery #99: Nonconcatenative Morphology

We have some fun telling you about nonconcatenative mophology — that is morphology that doesn’t involve stringing things together. It’s not just Arabic, folks (though we do talk about that a bit).

Top of Show Greeting: Engeldish

Links and Resources:

• “Down with Morphemes” talk and paper
• Wikipedia article
• Wikipedia “Apophony”
• Indo-European Ablaut
• “Transfix”
• Arabic broken plurals
• Disfixes
• Consonant gradation (and here)
• A presentation on NC morphology
• Takelma
• Ablaut in Hill Patwin (57-page paper)
• Sign Language morphology (paper, video, and a lesson)