Re: Success and Failure

Oops. I sent my reply to Joe only. Why does egroups automatically
set the reply to the person instead of the entire group? Grr.
Then my reply disappeared into cyberspace so I'll try to rewrite it.

Joe:
> Tense and aspect previously behaved like so:
>     Past:       first consonant of verb becomes voiced.
>     Perfective: first consonant of subject becomes voiced.
May I ask how this came to be? I know some Chadic languages mark
the plural by devoicing the first consonant, probably due to
an earlier gemination:

   digra > ddigra > ttigra > tigra

Or something like this. I don't have my papers around.

Otherwise I really like the success and failure feature and I'll
even try and incorporate it in one of my own langs if that's okey.
I think you have a very well thought out system.

Daniel