Re: TERMINOLOGY: Re: another new language to check out

Quoting David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...>:

> Andreas wrote:
>
> << When you say nominative, do you mean accusative? The nominative, not
> mentioned
>  in my previous post, is unmarked.>>
>
> Oh, yeah.  :)  And since the nominative isn't marked, there's obviously no
> way to tell
> whether the plural marker comes before or afterwards, right?
Right.

In the ancestral language, there _was_ a non-zero nominative marker, which went
after the pl marker. It dropped out for phonological reasons.

                                              Andreas