Re: "To Be" In Silindion, Observations

On Sunday 02 January 2005 21:04, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:

 > The present tense marker is indeed -a-.  I have been
 > thinking more than once to change it to -@- (i.e., a
 > vowel matching the root vowel), but that would cause
 > problems with verbs with /i/ or /u/ as root vowels (with
 > /i/, the present indicative would fall together with the
 > subjunctive, with /u/, with the future tense).  However,
 > as I think about it, -@- perhaps is not such a bad idea,

According to the "dtv Atlas Deutsche Sprache", it is not
unusual for languages that certain things fall together and
this is why there arise irregularities -- though the book
said this usually happens due to sound changes. To avoid
confusion, workarounds have to be found. This adds a bit
more naturalism to a language. I guess you know that,
anyway, but I wanted to show off ;-)

Regarding the works of you both guys, it's awesome as usual!
Are there grammars of Albic and Elliott's langs available
yet? It'd certainly be interesting.

Cheers,
Carsten

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