Re: Agreement Idea

2007/5/31, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...>:

> Of course, if this was troubling, you should note that I rather
> uncreatively decided on prefixes to express noun class.  It doesn't
> need to be that way.  What if, instead, lexemes were represented
> with consonants, and noun classes were represented with vowels?
>
> Class I: CeCCi
> Class II: aCCeC
> Class III: CoCCu
> Class IV: CaCiC
>
> And suppose the way verbs agreed with nouns in class was by
> taking the vowels of the nearest noun class.  Then the verb
> wouldn't have any way of being vocalized without agreement.
>

This is a really enticing prospect! Could I embezzle this idea some
time in the future for another conlang? Haha. I hadn't thought of that
many possibilities, but I realise you're right too, that things don't
disappear just because they aren't necessary. My bad!

I'm interested in Roger's question too, about multiple definites in a
sentence -- how might that be annotated?

Eugene