Re: Re : Using numberless substantives

On 20 Jun 99, at 17:15, mathias wrote:

> Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 20/06/99 21:58:59  , Paul a =E9crit :
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> >  more sensible imho than either of my guesses.
> you said it.
>
> >  Is a more lengthy description of
> >  these mutations available?
> >
>
> nope, that's all what's left in stock.
[snip]
> how does your conlang deal with that ?
>
Wenetaic has four mutations of the root, eg:

taki, sura - Noun Single
tatki, susra - Noun Plural
takti, sursa - Verb Instant
takati, surusa - Verb Continuous

There are more complex examples involving "hidden" consonants
and syllables that crop up to make the pattern irregular for certain
roots.

These go with complex, but regularly formed particles (that were
once suffixes) that cover:
shades of meaning and attitude
shades of truth and evidentiality (some of which are a bit dense)*
postpositions
adjective and adverb markers
genetives (of which I have many, also sometimes dense)
and just about everything else I need.

A lot of particles have been inspired by threads on conlang, before
reading this list, I had around six, plus a vague notion of some of
the genetives.

The final piece to the puzzle is the Flexion system, which is a
small set of markers, some of which are Person related and some
Gender related.  Particles take a flexion at either/each end to mark
the Subject and Object of the expression in question.

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* For example _se"tum_ means something like _I infer from your
limited evidence that this is probably false_
[e" =3D e-umlaut =3D schwa]

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Pb