Re: Intrusive Articles!

En réponse à Christian Thalmann :


>Finally, since I liked this construction so much, I dedided
>to extend it to all adjectives fronted for emphasis:
>
>|Is eogu toldra graeve un onner.|
>[iz e@g 'tAld@r grajv @n 'Ann@r]
>"The horse bears heavy a load."
>
>|Nau jo nuver mi an fija tan tsuode ni puore.|
>[no jA 'nu:v@r mi @m pi: tan dzu@d ni bu@r]
>"I am not going to wed one of my daughters to such daft a
>     boy."
>
>
>Comments?
I completely agree with your liking of this feature. Indeed, it's one of
the features that the first instance of Maggel had that I kept in its new
incarnation! :)) (except that the article in Maggel behaves quite
differently from a normal definite article and is mandatory when there is
an adjective, *even if* the noun is actually indefinite :) ). It goes so
far that when there is a preposition in front of the noun, a fronted
adjective will go *in front* of that preposition!!! (and undergo changes of
form depending on the preposition :) )

And despite their strangeness, those features are probably the most
realistic in Maggel, since, although they are written separately in the
script, prepositions and the articles are phonological prefixes, and it's
thus normal that nothing can go between them and the noun (even if it
creates the strange word order adjective + preposition + article + noun :)) ).

How does it happen in Jovian when you put a fronted adjective for emphasis
in front of a noun in a prepositional phrase? (I suppose Jovian has
prepositions of course :)) ) Do you get the word order preposition +
adjective + article + noun?

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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