Re: No pronoun, no article

En réponse à Remi Villatel :


>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?
As many other posts have been telling, you probably cannot do without 
pronouns or at least "pronoun-like" nouns. But you can easily do without 
articles, even without another system to replace those articles, and you 
don't need conlangs for that :)) . Japanese, for instance, not only has no 
articles and no plural mark, but it doesn't have *anything* to replace 
them! They just do without articles and without plural. If you want to 
indicate clearly what you mean and how many, just use demonstratives and/or 
adjectives. And as for the suffix -tachi that is often translated as a 
plural, it means more exactly "and (the) others" (so you can use it after a 
proper name, for instance, to talk about that person and people usually 
associated with that person) and as such is not really a plural.

>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.
As I said, you needn't even have a replacement for articles. Why should 
you? They are in no way mandatory.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang. 

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