On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:08:50PM -0600, Dirk Elzinga wrote:
> > Tf Pt*p+{7,6}(c)v((c)c) Wctsr++ Ma++i+f++ Sbsovargn Lc+d++125
>
> That's a pretty small phonological inventory!
Yeah. I thought it would be an interesting challenge to get by so
few phonemes. Besides, some real languages seem to do OK with even less. :)
> What do you mean by the nested parentheses for syllable structure?
An option within an option; I could have written it as just
(c)v(c)(c). A syllable has a vowel (always) optionally preceded by
a consonant and followed by anywhere from 0 to 2 consonants (with
further restrictions on what those consonants can be).
> What about head/dependent marking?
Haven't decided on compounding yet.
> Is there tense/aspect/case/gender/number? Or are you still
Yes to tense/aspect/number; no gender anywhere; nouns have cases but verbs
don't reflect them. I must have missed some bits of the code.
-Mark