Re: Agglutinating -> inflecting
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 26, 2003, 5:12 |
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AJ = Andreas
CG = Christophe
AJ> I meant anade_w_ism literally
Okay, I give up. What's an anadewism?
CG> Hehe, you should take a look at the Arabic number system. Check the
CG> "Turkish and Arabic" message at
CG> http://www.livejournal.com/community/linguaphiles/327787.html.
Wow!
I haven't decided how to handle nouns with numbers in Okaikiar, although
at one point I was considering a partitive case. It definitely only
has two numbers, singular and plural, but which of those - not to mention
which case - to use with numbers is still undecided.
In Methkaeki, all quantifiers, including numbers, are suffixes, so
you don't say "three men"; you say "manthree". The generic plural is
a suffix meaning "some", but it's only used when the exact number is
unknown; otherwise the number itself functions as a plural marker.
-Mark
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