Re: Terkunan revision (adding a lot of Rhodrese)

Hi!

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Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
>... Have you considered putting the main onus of distinguishing
>number on the article? ...
Thinking about this for a longer time, I just found another reason why
this is just great: it removes the only full-fletched grammatical
affix.  Any remaining -z affixes would be lexicalised on pronouns and
articles and thus very, very limited.  There are several pros and cons
of marking number on the article, but I think this is the best reason
to do it, considering my design goals.

Thanks for the ideas, Benct! :-)

The only remaining grammatical affix is the perfect participle ending
on verbs, -at.  I think it could very well be argued that it is a
derivational ending, since the word class changes and many perfect
participles lexicalise.

I am currently also considering dropping the verb's -a ending.
Another step towards French...  We'll see.  It would mean that nouns
and verbs are indistinguishable on the phonology level, but then,
before vowels, this was always the case anyway, and my word class
markers are more irregular than regular, and thus a but half-hearted.
This would mean to drop the concept of marked word classes completely.

**Henrik

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