Re: New Language!

Chris Bates írta: "Verb Person (Accusative, but the verb agrees with both
arguments if it is transitive)
Pronouns:
1st & 2nd: Accusative
3rd: Split: pronouns representing people (like he/she in english) are
accusative, pronouns representing other things (like it) are accusative
Proper nouns: neutral (no marking either way)
Definite People (ie nouns referring to people occuring with a definite
article eg the men, the boys, the women etc): Accusative
Everything else: Ergative

"The main messiness is the lack of marking of proper nouns, which are
sandwiched between accusative systems (so the lack of marking doesn't occur
where the divide does) and also the fact that some 3rd person pronouns are
ergative even though things further down the scale from them are accusative.
Also, I'm not sure if any natural language changes from  ergative to
accusative because of a change of definiteness.... The difference between
Nom and Acc, and Erg and Abs is marked on the article, but all other cases
are marked with suffixes on the noun itself (this is the reason proper nouns
are neutral: they don't take articles), and some of the affixes (mainly the
plural affix) change form depending on whether the noun they're attached to
is taking ergative or accusative style marking... Phonology wise it isn't
amazingly interesting, apart from the fact it has no bilabials or
labiodentals whatsoever (no p, b, m, f, v, w...) but it does have a set of
dental fricatives (which I decided not to spell using the handy unused
letters f & v because that would be too easy)."

Nothing r'ly to add here, just... You are very creative, and I can't wait to
see more... :)))

Will you use þ and ð for your dental fricatives? (I.e. thorn and edh.)

Trebor
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