Daniel Andreasson wrote:
>So I thought I'd try creating a language I'm not very used to.
>It's ergative, agglutinating, noun-incorporating and has a very
>small phoneme inventory.
Yay!! Another conlang with noun-incorporation! I love this feature!
> This is all very sketchy -- I made it during a
>boring seminar today -- but I thought that I'd show it anyway.
Maybe that's what I should be doing during the lecture of the course I TA
for. I can do the material in my sleep, so I spend four hours a week bored
out of my skull in lecture. But I have to be there.
>* PHONOLOGY *
>
>p t k
> s x
>m n
>w l y
>
>i u
> a
No /f/. I like that. I find that I tend not to use /f/ very often when I
invent words.
>* THE PRONOUNS *
>
> SG PL
>1 mis pak
>2 ti wix
>3 u kan
[snip]
>PERSON AGREEMENT (always with the ABS)
>
> SG PL
>1 mi- pa-
>2 ti- kat-
>3 0- uk-
Hmm. I see connections here. And do I sense a historical remnant in the 3pl
agreement?
>incorp:noun - pers:agr - ROOT - (CAUS) - tense - asp/mood (- evidence)
Um. You seem to change your pattern later.
>2. "pilik wikkulanxut"
>
>pilik-0 wik -0 -kulan-0 -xut
>boy -ABS wood-3SG-cut -PAST-PERG
>'The boy cut wood.'
Incorporation then agreement, just like you said.
>3. "pilikin mikulanxut mis"
>
>pilik-in mi -kulan-0 -xut mis-0
>boy -ERG 1SG-cut -PAST-PERF 1SG-ABS
>'A boy cut me.'
>
>4. "pilik miskulanxut"
>
>pilik-0 0 -mis-kulan-0 -xut
>boy -ABS 3SG-1SG-cut -PAST-PERF
>'The boy cut me.'
Agreement then incorporation. Opposite order.
So what do you think?
Nice. I like it. Especially the incorporation. More conlangs need "cool"
features like this. :)
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Marcus Smith
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