Re: Introducing Myself

On Tuesday 18 September 2001 00:38, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Rune Haugseng wrote:
> > No, that's probably the exception. It normally just means a unique or
> > special instance of the noun - to take a bad example, if the Kematians
> > were Christians, they might use "nezerti" for "the Lord", using the
> > unique form.
>
> Interesting.  Uatakassí, my conlang, has something called "name
> particles".  They are short one-syllable words placed before something
> to show that it is a name.  For example, "prophet" (female) is
> _tinlastá_, the name of the founder of their religion is _díz tiNlastá_
> (ti- is a gender prefix, hence my capitalization), _díz_ indicates the
> name of an Elder.
Interesting.

>
> > The idea is basically that, instead of marking negation on the verb
> > (or with an adverb), it is marked on nouns and pronouns. So "he didn't
> > go" would literally be "no-he went", marking the negation on "he". (I
> > can't give any better examples right now, as I don't remember the
> > negative articles.)
>
> Interesting idea.
Thanks. Now that I think about it, that particular example would be
"laveraire" or "lave araire",
        laveraire
        lava-e-r-ai-re
        walk/move-past-3rd person-masculine-negation

        lave araire
        lave-e a-r-ai-re
        walk/move-past subject-3rd person-masculine-negation

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Rune Haugseng