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Re: Terkunan revision (adding a lot of Rhodrese)

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 20:09
Hi!

Henrik Theiling writes:
> Another reply to this:
And another one:
> 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.
Plus, it makes _z_ superfluous! I can use _s_ now, since all plurals are in monosyllabics now. Incredible. **Henrik