Re: Charyan novel! (was: Re: [CONLANG] I'm back!)

Hi!

Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...> writes:
> Q: wo3de ke4ben3 zai4 na3li?  Where is my text book? (my textbook at where?)
> A: zai4 wo3 zhe4li.  Here.  (At my here.)
> or A: zai4 ni3 na4li.  There.  (At your there.)
Exactly as Tyl-Sjok does it, except that there is no zhe4/na4--wo3/ni3
correspondence, but there are five modifiers to the demonstrative: the
three persons and near or far.  So you'd say in Tyl-Sjok (I give the
Chinese as well because it's so close to Tyl-Sjok's structure):

 Q: jo  kaxi y     at?
    wo3 shu1 zai4  na3?
    my  book be-at which?
    Where's my book?

 A: Y     jo  ky.
    zai4  wo3 zhe4/na4.
    be-at my  this/that.
    It's here (with me).
or
 A: Y     je  ky.
    zai4  ni3 zhe4/na4.
    be-at you this/that.
    It's over there (with you).
or
 A: Y     ong ky.
    be-at far this/that.
    It's over there (somewhere far away).
...

BTW: Isn't that na3li3 instead of na3li?  My in-brain tone generator
tells me to pronounce [na2li3] which then must be /na3li3/ instead of
/na3li0/. :-)

> To me, that's just begging to go into one of my langs. . . but which one?
Create a new one! :-)

**Henrik