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