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Re: Yet another introduction

From:Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...>
Date:Thursday, September 20, 2001, 16:08
Xaire!
> > I've been trying to put together a conlang I could have > liked for the > > past year or so, and my current project, Tolwd, seems to > appeal to me. > > Can you tell us a little about previous projects, too?
Oh, the closest I got to anything like a real language was a project with a Semitic-type morphology and ergative case marking. It had a pretty strange phonology (I mean it just didn't fit in anywhere, and it was not quite justified from typological/phonological universals point of view) and a bunch of other strange features. Anothe one was supposed to be polysynthetic, but I stopped just short of thinking anything about the verbal categories. Anyway, both the language and the culture were just going to look like exactly Chukchee, and I did not have the dedication then :-)
> > It has a relatively simple noun morphology (the object/subject > > distinction is almost completely demolished, and there is > third Dative > > case), but the verb is awful - it just comes out of control! It has > > I don't quite follow the phrase in parentheses. Are you > saying that there > are three cases, subject (nominative), object (accusative) > and dative, and > that the distinction between the first two is morphologically > almost gone?
Exactly.
> Sounds good to me. :-)
OK! Bye, Pavel