Editing Glossing Rules (section)

==== Transfix (root-and-pattern morphology) ====
In some languages, like many Afro-Asiatic languages, one can neatly separate (a) a word root and (b) a vowel pattern, although they are intertwined like two cogwheels. This phenomenon is known as ‘root-and-pattern morphology’ or ‘transfixation’.

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; (15) Transfix markup recommendation
: Categories that are expressed by a transfix, i.e. a complex regular vocalic pattern applied to a (consonantal) root in a paradigm, may be marked as unspecified inflection (“:”, see [[#Punctuation_colon|above]]).
: Some scholars suggest to use the ''ablaut'' backslash “\” (see [[#Punctuation_backslash|above]]) also for transfixation. <ref>Cf. Lehmann (2004: R20).</ref>.
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; Discussion:
: Alternatively, Daniel Werning suggests to use a ‘new’ punctuation mark, e.g. “^”, to mark transfixation.

; Current recommendation:
: Currently this Wiki uses '''“{{tf}}”'''  as a mark.

Cf. the following examples from Akkadian:
{| class="wikitable"
|- 
| ''šapārum'' || š'''a'''p'''ā'''r-um || writ'''e:I'''NF-NOM.SG ''or'' writ'''e{{tf}}I'''NF-NOM.SG || ‘(to) write; (to) send’
|- 
| ''ašpur'' || a-šp'''u'''r || 1SG-writ'''e:P'''ST ''or'' 1SG-writ'''e{{tf}}P'''ST || ‘I sent’
|- 
| ''ašappar''  || a-š'''a'''p'''pa'''r  || 1SG-writ'''e:I'''PFV ''or'' 1SG-writ'''e{{tf}}I'''PFV || ‘I send, I will send’
|- 
| ''aštapar'' || a-š'''&lt;ta&gt;'''p'''a'''r || 1SG-write'''&lt;PST&gt;''' ''or'' 1SG-writ'''e{{tf}}P'''ST || ‘I have sent’
|- 
| ''šiprum''  || š'''i'''pr-um  || '''writing(M)'''-NOM.SG || ‘message, writing; work’
|}

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