Re: Kali-sise Grammar

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 19:30:52 -0400, Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...>
wrote:

>Jeff Jones wrote:
>
>>This is an interesting sketch. ...
>>The case-marker/pronoun idea is interesting. I have no idea if it's
>>natural or not. I take it that case-marking is mandatory to avoid
>>ambiguity?
>
>Yes, it's mandatory.
>
>>I suppose that since you require se to mark verbs (even for verb-type
>>notions) this could be considered an all-noun language.
>
>Verbs are derived from nouns, in an idiosyncratic fashion (i.e., its not
>systematic).
>
>>It would be good to see the lexicon.
>
>http://www.langmaker.com/kalisiselexicon.htm
>
>Thanks for the feedback!
>
>Best regards,
>
>Jeffrey
That's really impressive. I actually meant to ask for the _roots_ list, but
that's OK since I found it. I'll be taking a closer look eventually -- I
want to see how you handle things like aspect lexically.

Oh, and I noticed someone made a syllabary for you. I had meant to say
before that you could easily do an ASCII syllabary (with only 24 syllables
you could stick to lower case) although it wouldn't be very readable.

Jeff

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