Teonaht (for the book)

What book is this?  Boy am I behind the times.  Who's
writing it?  Here's my stuff (replacing Sylvia's):

Sally


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> > 1. Name of conlang
Teonaht.  Pronounced /'teonaT/ or TAY-oh-nath.

>
> > 2. Name of conlanger
Sally Caves.
>
> > 3. Sample sentence with interlinearization/translation (optional)
        Yryi   dalvent    il  narko   dissyri  toja    elry  peram.
        I      anguished  the help    of-you   gentle  did-I seek.

        ANGUISHED I SOUGHT THE HELP OF KIND YOU!

Analysis:

        Yryi = emphatic first person sing. pronoun volitional
        dalvent = adjectival form of stative verb _dalvendi_, "be worried"
        il = acc/dat. definite article.
        dissyri = emphatic second person formal non-volitional
        rypperam = ry + peram:  non-emphatic first person sing. pronoun + verb
"peramrem."


> > 4. Web page URLs, e-mail addresses, book titles, or other sources of
> > further information (optional)
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/whatsteo.html  A brief description of
the language.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html   The main page.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/contents.html  Contents of all the
pages, including the grammar.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teoreal.html   Sound bytes.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teotexts.html  A growing collection
of texts.

I have also published an on-line essay in an Australian Journal called
M/C: A Journal of Media Culture
on the internet phenomenon of CONLANG.  I intend to base my own book on
this essay, which I'm writing
now.  I announced this publication on CONLANG last year.  It is archived
at:

        http://english.uq.edu.au/mc/0003/languages.html

Please check it out.  My original "Lunatic Survey" contributed to this
essay and all the essays I've
read at various venues, and so has the recent survey on mystical
language.

> > 5. A short (no more than about 5 sentences) description/explanation
> > of the language (e.g. reasons for its creation, associated
> > concultures, etc.)
Teonaht is a life-long project for me started when I was nine years old
and originally devoted to a cat cult, which still has vestiges in the
culture as I think of it today (see my Bastet Pages:

        http://www.frontiernet.net/~awen/bastgosp.html )

It has developed, I hope, into a formal, baroque, and quirky language
that I intended
for beauty and originality of expression.  Its most prominent features
are not just
its crotchety OSV word order (it's really turning into an SOV language),
but its use
of volitional and non-volitional subject/verb forms.  Even though it is
primarily
nominative in nature, it has a split nominative that makes a distinction
between agents
and experiencers (or participants).  Its other features (the three forms
of verb for
instance) are best described in the grammar.

Sally Caves

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Niffodyr tweluenrem lis teuim an.
"The gods have retractible claws."
                                from _The Gospel of Bastet_
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