Re: Strong Plurals?
| From: | Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 4, 2003, 6:44 |
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From: "Amanda Babcock" <langs@...>
Subject: Re: Strong Plurals?
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 03:55:12PM -0700, Joseph Fatula wrote:
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> > More or less accidentally, I derived a language from one of my conlangs
that
> > has some interesting plural formations.
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> I like the sound of that :) Accidental conlang features!
I find that it happens rather often in my conlangs. I thought of a fun
vowel change that could apply to a language I've been fiddling with, so I
sat down and applied it to a paragraph of text to see how it sounded. I
really liked the results, now I'm puzzling through what it does to the
grammar. A two-gender system just disappeared, being replaced with a
5-declension system for nouns, two of the cases merging into each other, and
a whole set of inflections going away. And thus changes a language from
being agglutinative to inflectional. I've had it happen before, but never
so drastically in so short a time.
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