Re: 80th lexicon entry

> ObConlang: what kind of conjunctions are in your conlangs? Are they
> equivalent to the English "and", "but", etc., or are there different words
> for the various meanings of "and", or are they divided differently from
> conjunctions in English?
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After a significant review earlier this year, Gevey now has 7 groups
of conjunctions: coordinating (27 so far, for listing); predicate (7,
for asking questions); dependent (13, for dependent clauses); temporal
(7, a subset of dependent); switch (4, another subset of dependent);
and relative (6, for embedding a relative clause within a host
clause). The 7th group - subjective - is derived from coordinating
and dependent conjunctions.

I'm quite proud of the coordinating conjunctions, as these allow me to
pull together some quite complex object phrases, and lessen the need
to twist the language into a series of long-winded clauses (which was
what was happening before the review). For example:

   tuusrhe, âl luetse, âl leprhe
   the dog and the cat and the rabbit

   tuusrhe, âl luetse, âl leprhe deth îhzdem ken
   a dog and a cat, and a rabbit without its babies

   tuusrhe tet óhsle, fyal leprhe tet huuwuu
   the dog as a friend, yet the rabbit for food

   tuusrhe - dog
   luetse - cat
   leprhe - rabbit
   îhzde - baby/young
   óhsle - friend
   huuwuu - food
   ken - its

A complete list (to date - I may add some more) of the coordinating
conjunctions is...

   âl - Inclusive (and)
   áp - Exclusive (but)
   brants - Specified (each, every)
   cat - Actionable (for, for the)
   daet - Grouped (as part of)
   deth - Unaccompanied (without)
   én - Subtractive (nor)
   fyal - Contrastive (yet, but)
   jaath - Superior (and especially)
   kats - Instrumental (with)
   laes - Full quantitative (all)
   monts - Paucal quantitative (a few)
   nash - Negative (definitely not, no)
   nied - Nil quantitative (none, no)
   nets - Posessive (for)
   nith - Inferior (but not especially)
   paesh - Equivocal (and possibly)
   pits - Additional (also, too)
   pout - Ungrouped (alone)
   roen - Group inclusive (together)
   sats - Non instrumental (without)
   shas - Positive (definitely, yes)
   skik - Group exclusive (apart, apart from)
   tath - Accompanied (together with)
   tet - Applicative (for, as)
   tots - Plural quantitative (some)
   vav - Alternative (or)

Rik, knee deep


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