Re: Marking nouns with person?

 Hey! It's developing at a reasonable pace now, I just haven't posted
much material recently. :P Currently I'm debating whether to eliminate
postpositions or not though (since I never liked my original system of
postpositions), which would be a major change... I have a switch system
which is partly used to describe different aspects of complex events,
kindof like serial verbs in some Asian languages. I'm considering going
all the way and completely eliminating adositions in favour of chains of
switched verbs, but this would make the language... not wordier, but
*longer*, as each switch marker constitutes one syllable, and with
switched verbs agreement is also required, so it could take a seriously
long time to say anything. Although, looking at the length of words used
to express basic things in some Australian languages, this may not be a
problem.
 Basically, it amounts to deciding if I value elegance over brevity or not.

>Chris Bates' long-stalled-very-slowly-developing conlang does
>this. :-)  I am thinking about borrowing it into S11.
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>Wrt. natlangs, I don't know.
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>**Henrik
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