Re: Making your language sound nice

> -----Original Message-----
> Michael Martin:
> <<
> Now, I had this idea that other cases would be formed by
> adding a consonant to the end of the word, so that it is
> possible to have a nominative and accusative form of each of
> the other cases.
>  >>
>
> Well, there's your problem right there!  ;)  Seriously,
> though, how does one differentiate a nominative locative and
> an accusative locative?  Can you give us some example sentences?
Actually, the reason I came up with this idea is because I thought of a
situation where you might have genitives in both the subject and the object
of the sentence. For example you might say, "Jack's mom doesn't like
Harold's cat."

For a locative example maybe, "The cat at the tree is watching the bird at
Joey's foot." That one even has an accusative-genitive.



>
> MM:
> <<
> Are there sound harmony rules in languages that I should
> learn about? I've read people talking about vowel harmony.
>  >>
>
> There is vowel harmony, and there is also consonant harmony
> and the process whose name I forget whereby one consonant
> changes in order to be dissimilar to a nearby consonant.  Is
> it dissimilation?
>
> Something similar could work for your language.

This could work. I just want to be sure I don't create confusion with some
other suffix.


> How many cases do you need to distinguish?
>
> -David

That is something that has been fluctuating. I've toyed with having as many
as seven cases, but that's not final.


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