YANC: Plausibility question
| From: | Shreyas Sampat <nsampat@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 13, 2001, 12:49 |
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Okay, I have this conlang that's milling around in my head with this ornate
seven-(person/gender) system that works as follows:
1: Speaker
2: Addressee
3: Subject of discourse
4: Person in conversation but not specifically being addressed
5: Tangentially relevant entity
6: Nonperson: an object/location/concept
7: Hypothetical Entity
Throretically, any nounlike thing takes the lowest-numbered person it can.
How plausible is this?
Incidentally, this lang treats all nouns as mass - it has numbers for no
amount, a small amount, a large amount, and an unspecified amount.
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Shreyas
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