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Re: Third report on Koni - some grammar

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, March 27, 2003, 19:36
En réponse à Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work <daniel.andreasson@...>:

> > > English isn't either. The list can have only one official language, > > Why? >
Because the whole point of the official language of the list is that it's not used :)) .
> > > Am I right to see some French influence on that verb? ;)))) > > Haha. I know. I noticed that too. AFAIK, that's a complete > coincidence as she doesn't know one word of French. It does look like > the French verb in Spanish clothes though. :) >
Yep :)) .
> > I'm not sure about this. If I understand correctly, these > so called personal suffixes are actually just agreement > suffixes.
Well, that's what personal suffixes are, in French at least ;)) .
> > Word order sure is OVS!
Good! :) Although it seems she hasn't made up
> her mind yet whether this holds for just personal pronouns or > for all sentences. More info to come on this. >
OK.
> > AFAIK, this would be impossible. "Us/eachother will see". I > don't think that's possible. The |-yen| suffix indicates that > the (implicit) subject is 1PL. |Yan| is the object in this > sentence (a reflexive pronoun). >
But nowhere in the book of linguistic laws it is said that reflexive pronouns can only be used as objects. Since a reflexive pronoun basically means "subject and object identical" and that in the case of Koni' all persons have a different reflexive pronoun, using it as subject to mean that the object is identical is nothing impossible, and would fit nicely in the pattern of suffixed personal pronouns :) .
> > Thanks for the comments. >
You're welcome :) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.