Re: The Future Language
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 17, 2000, 1:15 |
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Gerald Koenig wrote:
> There is some parallelism to my vector tense Nilenga NGL dialect which
> has extended the english contractions greatly and always _allows_
> agglutination due to the phonology of the language. Using <si> for your
> <se> I get:
But that's not really agglutinative. See that in the future form, 1st
singular /e~Ne~/ (note the change, I realized that I'd put the rules in
the wrong order), while in the present it's /e/, while 2nd singular
future is /jEGe~/, and 2nd singular present is /i/, non-analyzable.
> I should know, but what does the ~ stand for?
Nasalization
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