Re: demonstratives
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 19, 2001, 14:48 |
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, James O'Connell wrote:
>As I'm doing my demonstrative system in elenyo right now, I was wondering
>how other people had done this. Do you have seperate demonstratives to
>demonstrative pronouns or are they combined? Do they show case etc?
Talarian uses the same roots (co- and to-) for demonstrative
pronouns/adjectives as well as articles, interrogative and
locative pronouns. They do show case, and also distinguish
noun phrases as primary and secondary topics within the
sentence and can also distinguish relative distance of the
object from the interlocutors. There is also a separate
interrogative pronoun (hi-) and several other minor pronoun
types. Numbers also have pronominal force.
Padraic.
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