Re: Mapwords

En réponse à Roger Mills :

> >
>Maybe within the realm of human possibility-- the mapwords are used only in
>formal/correct writing...? Then in speech, perhaps bits or pieces of the
>mapwords could be attached to the constituents they relate to? Basque at
>least has "auxiliaries" that define Subject, Object, IO, tense and
>trans./intrans.
Just like spoken French conjugation :) .

>  (there's also forms that in addition indicate "hearer is
>intimately involved" or some such.
Those forms are actually quasi-identical to the forms including IO (quasi-
only, because most are identical but some have slight differences). The
same phenomenon happens in spoken French, where when there's no IO a second
person pronoun is added to involve the speaker in what you say (generally
in the sense of "listen to me carefully, it's important for you too :) ).
According to a book of mine, this is a pretty common phenomenon which
doesn't depend on language family.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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