Re: Distinct conjunctions for subordinate clauses in different case relations to main clause

On 2/2/06, Harold Ensle <heensle@...> wrote:

> Avesta uses a word called a conjunctive pronoun (va). It is a noun which
> references the following clause as a whole. However, the pronoun is part of
> the main clause and can be fully inflected like any other noun. How it is
> inflected indicates how the subclause relates to the main clause. For
> example:
<snip>

That sounds a bit like the pronoun "zqe" in gzb,
except that it's uninflected like all gzb pronouns,
and gets its case marked by postpositions.  ("ce"
has a similar function but points backward to a previous
phrase or sentence.  Rex May's tceqli uses
a similar pair of forward- and backward-reference
"this" pronouns, tco and tce.)  Having a pronoun
that works as a conjunction is a neat idea.  Though
I suppose my new system with "hoqnx" and "dxoqnx"
could be seen as an inflected pronoun-conjunction, with "dxoqnx" the
subject form and "hoqnx" the
object form...


> For more details, see
> http://home.ix.netcom.com/~heensle/lang/avesta/avgram.html
I'll take a look.  Thanks.

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