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Re: basic morphemes of a loglang

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Sunday, November 30, 2003, 12:22
At 06:13 30.11.2003, Steg Belsky wrote:

>Hmmm... possibly... although it's only left on the nouns. Would it >make sense that there used to be whole nother series of pronouns, which >ended in |s|, |l|, |t|, |dh| (agent noun), |d|, instead of just |z| >(subject) and |sh| (non-subject), and then they all just fell out of >use?
I see no problem with vestiges of a gender (or rather class-) system which has been lost in pronouns.
>Proto-Rokbei-Drughu
What will you do if JRRT's actual notes on Drughu show up? :) Rehash the proto-language? BTW I strayed into your homepage and was pleasantly surprised to see that the Rokbei are a sea-faring people. Got the North Sea (as well as the Pontic Steppe) in my blood, y'know! /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /'Aestan ~\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)

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Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>