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From:From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html <lassailly@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 6, 1999, 15:20
my new conlang is now described on one page :

http://members.aol.com/manishtusu/tayalit.html

it's a 3C-root language with many affixes.
sample :

tanan nawashuk ye-talam p=FBwutoka-m
he cuts a-tree which-makes-him-fall
"he falls cutting a tree"
-m refers to him (subject of main verb)

tanan nawashuk ye-talam p=FBwuteka-n
he cuts a-tree so-as-to-make-it-fall
"he cuts down a tree"
-n refers to the tree (object of main verb)

it owes a lot to Joshuah's explanation about "directive" cases
and the last string of posts re. making any topicized case
a subject. like an english relex, the directive case is identified
by means of a gerund (? - is "making him/it fall" a gerund ?).

it's a long language again. it's still fun.


mathias