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. :)
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