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Re: New language: Tama-i

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Thursday, October 2, 2003, 6:09
> Grammatical changes > ------------------- > > 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...
> > T > > -- > If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves > upon execution. -- Robert Sewell >

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