Re: Terkunan revision

Hi!

Philip Newton writes:
> On 10/8/07, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> >      The last one was particularly confusing I think.  Now that _il_
> >      has become _le_, it can obviously not be prefixed anymore because
> >      _le kan_ is already occupied.  So there is now an exception that
> >      the 3rd persion pronoun cannot be prefixed and the normal
> >      suffixed possessive with _de_ must be used:
> >
> >          kan de le  - his/her dog
> >
> >      Although an exception, is seems very reasonable to me.
>
> Indeed; it seems to me like a natural result had the two merged
> through, say, regular sound change.
And in Portuguese, it is also suffixed 'dele' etc., while the other
possessive pronouns are prefixed.  So it does look like Romance, I
think, while my old _il kan_ really sounds like 'the dog', not 'his
dog'.  That's why I like my revision much better despite the
exception.  3rd persion pronouns are often special or put differently,
less pronoun-like but more like regular nouns than the other pronouns
(thing Tok Pisin).

**Henrik