Re: Non-Human Features?

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"

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