Re: Deep Water: Re- Conlanging

In a message dated 4/5/2000 6:54:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
daniel.andreasson@TELIA.COM writes:

<< > pun ya.liris añ.nuro sawu.i
 > if 3s.fear NOM.deep water.GEN

 Interesting to mark 'water' (the noun) with genitive and
 'deep' (the adjective) with nominative. How come? >>
    Sorry, I thought I'd mentioned this previously (and expected everyone to
remember every detail of Kash morphology, which even I forget from time to
time).
NOM stands for nominal(ization), _anduro_ < añ- + nuro '(be) deep'; so this
is "if he fears the depth of the water".  It also happens to be accusative,
tho neuter nouns are identical in nom/acc case.  It could have been "pun
yaliris sawu nuro" (N + ADJ) but the lang. prefers dactyls/anapests over
iambs/trochees-- it could also have been "pun yaliris nuroni sawuwi"(nuro +
3s.POSS = añ.nuro) good metre,  but  too many -i jingles.