Re: No pronoun, no article
From: | Rik <rik@...> |
Date: | Saturday, October 18, 2003, 7:57 |
On Friday 17 October 2003 10:40 pm, you wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Could you tell me the name of a conlang, where the pronouns are replaced by
> another grammatical mechanism? And the same about the articles? Both at the
> same time?
>
> I think that there are not much other options than a verbal suffix/prefix
> for a pronoun and a noun suffix/prefix for an article but I'm looking for
> examples.
>
In Gevey (which has quite a rich pronoun system) there appears to be no
articles. Instead, the grammatical concept of "status" includes features
which in other languages are demonstrated by articles.
Rather than post the text on Gevey status here, you can check it out at
http://www.kalieda.org/gevey/status.html
Rik, knee deep.