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Re: Ah-ha! New computer, YANC and fluency

From:M. Sherryandra Soderquist <tuozin@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 12, 2000, 23:38
Matt Pearson wrote:
> I'm flattered!! If only Tokana would settle down a bit. I'm > doing yet another major overhaul on the Tokana Reference > Grammar, which should be finished by the end of the month > (I work on it for an hour or two every week, and of course > feel guilty every second). There are lots of new features, > both to the language, and the grammar: I've begun to get > systematic about verb classes in Tokana (which case forms > are used with which arguments, etc.). I've added an > antipassive, eliminated reduplication and denominal verbs, > and done a complete overhaul of motion verbs. I've also > added new sections to the grammar on adverbs. And then > there's the two new cases (allative and comitative) which > got added to the language last year, but had not yet been > incorporated into the grammar before I began the latest > revisions. A conlangers work is never done...
It's not flattery, it is well deserved. I am sure we are all looking forward to seeing how things work out when it settles down, but I am still not entirely convinced that conlangs can stay settled. :) -- Mia Soderquist Firetalk #605102 ICQ #19818811 or 5926593 MSN Messenger/hotmail: ursulanumeria@hotmail.com