> Grammatical changes
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> In spite of the relatively short timeframe, significant grammatical
> changes have happened. Most of these actually began developing late in the
> Era of the Kingdom; but they were "kept out" of "official" Ebisedian by
> the pedantic way the _hoKasanii'_ taught it in schools.
>
> a) The subjective case: a development which may be even more fearsome to
> those who thought Ebisedian's case system was odd. The subjective case
> is properly not a "case" (in the Ebisedian sense), because it is
> orthogonal to the other noun cases. It marks the subject of the
> sentence, but *independently* of the originative/receptive/... case it
> may already be inflected for. For example:
> pi'zd0i tw'ma biztau' -> the man spoke to the woman
> man-ORG-SUBJ speak woman-RCP
>
> pi'zdi tw'ma biztau'i -> the woman was spoken to by the man
> man-ORG speak woman-RCP-SUBJ
I see. That makes things easier, on the whole. But where did it come from?
> What do fellow conlangers think of Tama-i? Is it a worthy successor to
> its Ebisedian heritage? :-)
I think we should see your original relay text in it. The one with the
woman...
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