Re: Revised Verb paradigm!
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 21:53 |
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> On Sunday, October 28, 2001, at 11:38 , Padraic Brown wrote:
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> No detailed comments (I don't know enough to be useful on conromance?type?
> langs) but your paradigms are quite lovely; this is one conlang I'd
> definitely like to hear spoken.
If I can get the accent down, I might try recording it.
> > ii. Past simp. (perf.)
> >
> > parlasi parlason
> > parlaste parlasaz iiA. Past
> > parlasot pharlasont
>
> I noticed in a number of places <p> varied to <ph>. What sound is <ph>
> and what instigates the variance (mostly, it seems, in the 3rd person
> plural)? (I apologize, I realize I've missed a lot of your earlier posts
> on Kerno.)
It's [f]. This is aspiration, a typical British mutation. 3rd singular
used to have a feminine form, called softening: barlasot, e.g. Not
frequently heard anymore; though still quite alive in Brithenig.
Aspiration also happens in plural nouns: il cats / y chat /Il kat(s)/ -
/i xat/. The third mutation is nasalisation, which you get (usually)
after prepositions and articles that end in -n and also in the oblique
case: il cats / le gatte /Il kat(s)/ - /lE~ gat/.
Padraic.
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