Re: YAAL: Chazhsu
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 22:24 |
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Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> writes:
> A script containing five hundred and forty-nine individual symbols, which
> (co-incidentally) correspond to the five hundred and forty-nine roots
> (now _that's_ what I call convenience).
Hihi! :-) Nice.
> Tense:
> The tense particles are added anywhere in the sentence, preferably in
> the vicinity of, or at least the same sentence as, the verb.
> Really deep past: pofi /p3\:_Mfi_M/
> Past: plofi /p3\:_Tfi_M/
> Yesterday: phozhfhizh /p3\:_H_Tfi_H_T/
> Present: pjofhizh /p3\:_Bfi_H_T/
> Tomorrow: pjofli /p3\:_Bfi_T/
> Future: phozhji /p3\:_H_Tfi_B/
> Really far future: bofil /p3\:_T_Bfi_B_T/
> Never: polvi /p3\:_B_Tfi_T_B/
> Unknown: bovi /p3\:_T_Bfi_B_T/
Wayeeee! `Never' and `Unknown'! Those're missing in the system of
tenses in my conlang sketch S4. Great! I'll have to borrow
them... :-))) S4 has the following tenses up to now:
| root | offset | vowel + tone | stem
-------------------+------+--------+--------------+-------
unspecified | - | | | -
timeless | onq | +1 | iw | sqiw
present | onq | 0 | iw | onqiw
limited present | onq | -1 | i | ongi
broader present | onq | -2 | iw | okjiw
past | onq | 0 | a | onqa
recent past | onq | +1 | a | sqa
remote past | onq | -1 | aw | ognaw
very remote past | onq | -2 | a | okja
any future | onq | 0 | uw | onquw
recent future | onq | +1 | uw | squw
remote future | onq | -1 | u | ognu
very remote future | onq | -2 | uw | okjuw
(Brief explanation: I'll post details later, but S4 will probably
have:
- three vowel phonemes: a, i, u (no length)
- two tones, low is indicated by -w after vowel
- root transformations called `offsets' from -2 to +1
- an impossible *lot* of consonant phonemes)
An now, I'll have to think about how to code `never' and `unknown',
because all the stems producible from the root `onq' are shown above.
Problems!!
**Henrik