Re: demonstratives

Hi!

> 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?
My current artlang S2 (not published yet, no final name yet) only has
one determiner.  I don't have many words yet, only descriptive English
abbreviations and some grammar.  I'll call the determiner `DET',
therefore.  The determiner may either mean `that' or `that' depending
on context.

    S2: I read DET book.
    E:  I read this/that book.

To clarify what is meant, `DET' may be modified (like in Tokana).  But
there is no `here' or `there' because this translates to `DET place'
in S2 (like in Mandarin, but without the distinction between `zhe4
li3' and `na4 li3').

Some of the allowed modifiers are allowed are: `near', `far', `I',
`you', `he/she/it':

    S2: I read near DET book.
    E:  I read this book.

    S2: I read far DET book.
    E:  I read that book.

    S2: I read I DET book.
    E:  I read this book (at the place where I am).

    S2: I read you DET book.
    E:  I read that book (at the place where you are).

    S2: I read he DET book.
    E:  I read that book (at the place where he is).

**Henrik