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[Documentation] Adding a ‘Namespace’ morphological slot, and a sectio…
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Ntsekees committed Oct 20, 2024
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- [Phonotactics](./phonotactics.md)
- [Morphology](./morphology.md)
- [Contentives](./morphology/contentives.md)
- [Slot #4: Base](./morphology/base-slot.md)
- [Slot #5: Base](./morphology/base-slot.md)
- [Slot #4: Namespace](./morphology/namespace.md)
- [Slot #3: Extensions](./morphology/extensions-slot.md)
- [Slot #2: Role](./morphology/role-slot.md)
- [Root verb roles](./morphology/roles/root-verb-roles.md)
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├───┼────────────┼────────────────┤
│ 3 │ C(VG)V* │ Extensions │
├───┼────────────┼────────────────┤
│ 4 │ CV(CV…)(C) │ Root or base │
│ 4 │ CV │ Namespace │
├───┼────────────┼────────────────┤
│ 5 │ CV(CV…)(C) │ Root or base │
└───┴────────────┴────────────────┘
```

⟪C⟫ ≝ any consonant; ⟪V⟫ ≝ any vowel or diphthong; ⟪G⟫ ≝ any glide/semivowel.

(The asterisk means that the slot is optional and recursive, i.e. its may contain zero, one, two or more values strung together.)

Slot 1, 3 are optional; the other ones are mandatory.
Slot 1, 3 and 4 are optional; the other ones are mandatory.

However, the Role slot may further be subdivised into up to three further subslots when the word is inflected for certain syntactic functions (mainly functions others than that of main verb):

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│ Slot #3 │ lu- │ Extension: past tense │
│ Slot #3 │ ŋkı- │ Extension: “you and me” + (Ergative) │
│ Slot #3 │ kwıyu- │ Disyllabic extension (CVyV): “reciprocally” │
│ Slot #4 │ -ráwa │ Root: “talk with” │
│ Slot #5 │ -ráwa │ Root: “talk with” │
└──────────┴────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

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