Re: what should i call this?

Equality marker? I don't think it would be useful though. You have
different nuances, like:

- _a book_ this is. (classifier)
- _this_ is a book. (specific example)
- this _is_ a book. (confirmation)

I don't see how yours fits into anything like this.

On 3/23/07, hotaru.firefly@gmail.com <hotaru.firefly@...> wrote:
> i've been working on a new language recently (still unnamed) and i can't
> figure out what to call a certain feature of the langauge... i guess the
> easiest way for me to explain it is to give an example, so here goes:
> ei = is
> sān = this
> vonh' = book
> eica sān vonh'.
> "this is a book."
> ei sān vonh'.
> "this is the book." or "this is what a book is."/"a book is this."
> basically "eica X Y" means X is Y, but Y may or may not be X, whereas "ei X Y"
> means X is Y and Y is X...
> this "-ca" can be used on other verbs also... not just "ei"... any ideas?
>