Re: Group Conlang

On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Pablo Flores wrote:

> To everybody: I think it's time that we decide on some basic
> issues, namely gender, evidence, tense, and aspect. I'll restate
> my proposal with a slight modification:
>
>
> Gender (for "nouns" and maybe agreeing modifiers)
>
> person (sentient being)
> animate (animal or vegetal)
> thing (physically perceivable)
> concept (an action or abstract object)
I like "classifiers" better than gender, and optional
rather than compulsory. But I don't understand if your
gender-markers are the way of showing noun part-of-speech;
I like some easy way to recognize the nouns.

> Evidence (for all PoS's)
>
> actually perceived (you saw it/listened to it/etc.)
> indirectly perceived (i. e. by its effects)
> hearsay (they told you about it)
> hypothetical (you don't imply it's real or it happened)
I prefer plain adverbs, not grammaticalized evidentiaries.
Obviously, hypothetically, possibly, ranomly, guessingly.