Re: Marking nouns with person?
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 1, 2005, 18:44 |
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On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:07:34 -0400, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> "ruittenb@tiscali.nl" <ruittenb@...> writes:
>> This makes me wonder..
>> Is there any language that marks nouns with
>> person? E.g.:
>>
>> The man-2SG is-2SG eating.
>> = You, the man, are eating.
>>
>> The president-1SG is-1SG talking to you.
>> = I, the president, am talking
>> to you.
>
> Chris Bates' long-stalled-very-slowly-developing conlang does
> this. :-) I am thinking about borrowing it into S11.
>
> Wrt. natlangs, I don't know.
ANADEWism: Elamite marks person on certain nouns. There are essentially
two classes of nouns.
The pattern is:
First person -k
Second person -t
Animate Singular -r
Animate Plural -p
Derived Inanimate -me
Inanimate [zero]
A derived inanimate is where a nominal root usually refering to an animate
thing is derived to a related inanimate noun.
For instance:
I, the king |sunkik|
you, the king |sunkit|
he, the king |sunkir|
they, the kings |sunkip|
kingdom |sunkime|
temple |murun|
Paul
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