Re: Yet another introduction

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 21:47:16 +0400, Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...> wrote:

>> Privet! Greetings from another Moscovite!
>
>Are we the only two here? :-)
Yes, unless somebody else is lurking. There used to be a guy from
Novosibirsk on this list, but he hasn't posted for more than a year.

>Yes.
>To be more specific, the Nom-Acc forms are not homophnic only when used
>with a certain (very limited) class of verbs.
Interesting. Did you mean any natlang precedents?

>> >but the verb is awful - it just comes out of control! It has
>> >three separate inflectional paradigms for the verb, having to do with
>> >whether the subject/object is definite and/or associated with a
>> >possessive.
>>
>> Like in Hungarian, for objects (IIRC)?
>
>Yes, with the difference that Hungarian thinks of the possessive in
>terms of it just being definite, and Tolwd has separate conjugations for
>the definite object and for the possessive object.
Interesting. I thought of a system where 3rd person, inanimate can
convey such meanings as 'this thing of mine', 'this thing of yours', etc.
It was inspired by an example from some Amerind language. I even invented
a way for such system to emerge.

>As to your remark in another letter, regarding the oddity of languages,
>I must say that I like naturalistic languages (that's why I'm not deep
>into Klingon, but absolutely in love with Quenya and Sindarin), but I
>don't want mine to look just like natlangs.
I'm worse. It seems I want them just to be weird natlangs :)
>
>Bye,
>Pavel
Bye until Monday,

Basilius (Vasiliy)

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