Re: Lenmoct
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 26, 2003, 19:49 |
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>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!
Suzette Haden Elgin attempted something similar a couple of decades ago with
her auxlang Láadan /laadan/ ["la:_Fdan], though her aproach was more limited
to making every noun default to female and requiring a suffix to make it
male.
e.g.
- 'with' [wIT] /woman,person/
- 'withid' [wIT.Id] /man/
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