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Re: Non-Human Features?

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 7, 2003, 2:44
Joseph Fatula wrote:
> Root Repetition > Where an affix contains something based on the form of the root. For > example, in Teuthurev, the affix meaning "the ordinary kind of X" is -ASth, > where A is an approximant version of the final root consonant and S is the > strong version of the root vowel. So if the root is "tac", the whole word > is "tacwauth". If the root were "ep", the whole word would be "eprith".
As Joe pointed out, that's reduplication, altho the exact form your reduplication takes is very unusual. Usually, it's just a part of (or all of) the root, sometimes simplified, e.g., ep -> epep, tac -> tacac
> Case - Transformative > For "becoming X" or "turning into X". For example, "I made the wool *into > cloth*." Found in Morgenon and continental Tunugruc languages.
I believe Finish has this, called Translative (?)
> Case - Ingeminate > For a noun that is the object of the first verb and the subject of the > second. For example, "I see *you* washing the car." "He wants *the dog* to > go outside." This is in the Tazhnakt languages.
Interesting. I could see this evolving from some kind of genitive case. Perhaps in the proto-language, subordinate clauses were nominalized, so that one would say "I see *your* washing the car", "He wants *the dog's* going outside".
> Case - Prescriptive > Meaning "acting on X's orders" or "as X wishes". In the oldest Tunugruc > languages.
I've seen a preposition "per" used that way in English, so it seems quite reasonable as a case to me.
> Motion - Transitive > I've got allative (towards) and ablative (away from) variants of various > spatial cases. But in the Morgenon and Ilgoen languages there's a > transitive (through) motion form.
That's "perlative" -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42