Re: OT: sorta OT: cases: please help...

Quoting Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>:

> ObConlang: I think the only clitics I've got in *any* of my conlangs
> are the conjunctions in Tasratal, which behave like the Latin "[X]
> [Y]que":
Degaspregos had a whole series of clitics for functional morphemes.
Here're some stuff from my old webpage:

-ke relation including the addressee, "meosike" [="we AND you"]
-le relation excluding the addressee, "meosile" [="we but NOT you"]
-(a)-toi definite article, English "the". Used relatively sparingly.
-sema indefinite article, English "a/an". Used relatively sparingly.
-kwe occupies similar semantic space as "and", but indicates a close,
   tightly bound relationship (such as "'n'" in English "Boys 'n' girls");
   this also serves to disambiguate phrases like "old men and women"
   where either "old (men and women)" ("senasi wirosi gwirosikwe") or
   "(old men) and women" ("senasi wirosi e gwirosi") could be meant.
-ne question forming clitic; not only does this transform statements
   into questions, but the word to which it is attached becomes the
   point in question: "Amatane meom?" ("Do you love me?"), but "Amat
   teosane meom?" ("Do you love me?")
-pe Y is not inherently part of X (Y may or may not imply X); e.g.
   "ergos wirosope" [="a man's work"]; [2]
-re Y is inherently part of X (or will always imply it); e.g.,
   "awosore pleukaptos" [="a bird's wing"]; [2]

(For those who weren't here or don't remember, D. was based on
IE roots, which is why I can so brazenly steal clitics from Latin.)

The clitics are part of the phonological word, but not the
morphological, so the accent in "meosile" is [meo.'si.le].
(Degaspregos accents the second mora from the right end of
the phonological word. Nonfinality is active, so final syllables
with multiple morae still don't get accentuation.)

As of yet, I don't think Phaleran has any clitics. Need to check
on that.

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