Re: Case?

From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>
>>As for needing it... If your language can use adjectives substantively, you
>>should be able to use the 3rd person adjective in the same place.
>>
>>For example, (this is 'pseudocodelang'):
>>
>>    dó     a  eius su     gat
>>    give.I to 3P   3P-ADJ cat
>>    "I give them their cat"
>>
>>    dó     a  eius el  su
>>    give.I to 3P   ART 3P-ADJ
>>    "I give them theirs"
>Some sort of proto-conRomance? ;-)
Actually sort of a post-conSpanish ;)

Just a few minor changes: loss of syllable-final 's' [replaced by circumflex in
roots, but retained spelled silently in inflections--'eius' is /EjU/], loss of
final vowels, simplification of some vowels, a little more phonetic spelling and
whatever grammar is necessary to the situation :p

    Me yam Muke, y me gût êtuyar la lingüîtic!

Or, more babeliciously:

    El mund enter er de un lengo y las mîmas palabras.

>Reminiscent of Spanish:  les di el suyo,
>not (IIRC) *les di suyo.  However, es mio/tuyo/suyo etc. 'it's mine...' is
>OK (?).  How about "este libro es el mio" 'this book [there are several ] is
>mine' (?)-- not sure about that.
I think that's decently correct  [Not sure either though, but that's the example
I almost used.]

    *Muke!
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