Re: Conlang in planning: Tarsyanian

Hello, Carsten.  Glad to hear about your new conlang.
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Carsten Becker <naranoieati@B...>
wrote:
> [snip]
> III. GRAMMAR
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Regarding the grammar, I thought about the following
> features:
> [snip]
>   * Masculinum/femininum in addition to animate/inanimate
>   * no grammatical tense, tense is expressed with temporal
>     adverbs (perfective/imperfective aspects)
>   * different declensions and conjugations? -> Depends on
>     sound changes!
>   * Cases are always marked with articles
>   * Some kind of active language (agent-/patienthood are
>     lexicalized now) OR volitionality as criteria (that'd
>     make it a real active language, wouldn't it)?
>   * NOM/AGT, ACC/PAT, DAT/BEN, GEN/ABL -> NO weird behaviour
>     in ditransitive sentences: Donator is AGT, Receiver is
>     BEN, Object is PAT
hat is the non-weird behaviour the ditransitive sentences do behave?

>   * Adjectives are declined and compared like in English
>     with modal adverbs of degree, not with verbs
>   * Stative ("<NOUN> is <ADJ>.") adjectives are conjugated,
>     though the agentive part is patientive (traces of
>     ergativity!)
>   * Adverbs do not need to be made fit to their head words
>     (which was stupid of me to do in Ayeri!)
> [snip]
> Hope you enjoyed this,
I expect to.  I've enjoyed the rest of your work.

Tom H.C. in MI