Re: Overide #2 (NA and GA)

On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 15:17:09 +0900
<jrmt@almas.co.jp> wrote:

> 
> 
> > 1) Both halves of this word are masculine.
> Yes.
> > 2) The first GA has the dotted medial form.
> No. first GA is un-dotted medial form.
> 
> > 3) The second GA has the undotted feminine form.
> The second GA will become ligature <GA+I> medial form with the
> following I, it is like the un-dotted feminine form but larger than
> the un-dotted feminine. You have to handle the ligature <GA+E>,
> <GA+I>, <GA+OE>, <GA+UE>, <GA+EE> first.
Which I take as 'yes'.  (I'm assuming there are no problems about
ligature formation.)

> > Does final GA undergo gender reassignment in such words when the
> > parts have different genders?  
> No. even the following word is feminine, it will be un-dotted
> masculine medial form.
> > Does initial I in the second part make the final GA feminine?  
> No. same with above.
> 
> > Is the behaviour mixed? For example, I can imagine different
> > behaviour for different initial vowels in the second part.
> No. same with above.

Those are just the answer I was hoping for.  As far as preceding
letters are concerned, the Mongolian vowel forms with an extra, initial
tooth count as consonants.  The ancient symbol for a glottal stop still
retains its consonantal value in the writing system, even if Mongolian
has no glottal stop.

That still leaves the Sibe, Todo, and Manchu forms to check.  However,
it looks as though the rules for dotting NA and masculine GA are simple
enough to allow FVS1 to toggle their dotting, as seems to have been
the original intent.

Richard.

Received on Tuesday, 8 September 2015 21:22:14 UTC