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Re: Lenmoct

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Sunday, April 27, 2003, 0:17
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From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>

> En réponse à Jake X :
> >After all the endless discussion on CONLANG over ways to treat > >agent-patient relationship in Accusative, Ergative, and other systems, > >I thought it would be interesting to make a gender based system, > >where feminine nouns are assumed to be the subject, and masculine > >nouns assumed to be the object. This was fun! > > Interesting idea, with shades of animacy hierarchy which exists in many > languages in the world, except that usually females are equal or lower
than
> men in the hierarchy rather than higher...
I am so relieved that Jake didn't make the subject masculine and the object feminine, like so much "gaze" theory. Bravo, Jake! Sally Caves scaves@frontiernet.net Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo. "My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."

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