Re: Conlang Typology Survey

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> Hehe, the Maggel article is a pretty strange beast. Its occurence is
> pretty
> much dependent only on the words that appear around the noun, and has a
> definite meaning only when the noun is alone :)) .

Hmm.... I haven't thought much about the Pidse articles. I guess the
definite article probably derive from its word for 'that' (and/or 'it',
not that there's a difference in Ygyde or Pidse), which means that it
will actually come from something totally different :)

Maybe it'll originate from a phrase ('one/few/group/many that I talk
about' perhaps) which originally had other rules strictly defining where
it went and what it meant, but it got so eroded that it ends up being a
single word, but maintaining some of the properties of the phrase so
that it can only goes in funny places depending on sentence type,
adjectives, grammatical function of the noun, class of the noun, number,
and the weather :) (Anyone know of a natlang that has different articles
used in different weather conditions? :) )

>> (And it's 'Hebrew', pronounced with an (English-style) 'long e'.)
>
> Somehow, this spelling "Hebrew" just looks... wrong to me, which is why I
> keep making the mistake.

I think so too, though I tend to make the mistake of typing it
'Hewbrew', which is probably more influenced by the final -ew then
anything else :)

>> Oh, only as insane? :( :)
>
> Yep :)) .

:( I'm at least twice as insane as you are, I insist!

>> They all seem quite reasonable to me :)
>
> Of course, to me too :) . But we're not quite common are we? ;)))))

No, but one generally only finds one of each person :P :)


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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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