Re: Conlang Typology Survey

En réponse à Stone Gordonssen :


>Sorry, I was unclear. I meant this only as an example where only the
>posessed was modiefied.
Ah, OK :(( . Sorry for being so dense sometimes :(( .


>Warning! Brain shutting down to avoid overload! :-)
LOL. And I haven't even started about a word like |gdhmabgis|: "400"
(Maggel has a base-20 numeral system) pronounced obviously ['dvE;I;z] or
['dvE:Iz], which also has the combined form |a hdhmyhoiz|, pronounced very
regularly [@ 'Gvi:Yz], and the distributive form |gdhmigseo|, pronounced
['gdv@'ze:] ;))))) . Want more? ;)))))

>One thing that I've realized from being on this list and no longer working
>with my conlangs in isolation*
>is that I sex and gender aren't reflected in any of my conlangs, though I do
>have classes of nouns in 2 of them (living/nonliving plus a relic sentient
>class in Palu f'Dule, animate/nonanimate in Nenshar)
Gender is not always reflected in my conlangs. Maggel is peculiar is that
gender is reflected, but purely grammatical and unrelated to natural
gender, which means that depending on what you're talking about, you may
refer to a man with a masculine, feminine or even neuter noun in the course
of the conversation, and since agreement is always purely grammatical, the
pronouns you use to refer to that person will change accordingly :)) (so
referring to a man as "she" is perfectly normal if you refer to him with a
noun which is feminine of gender :)) ).

>*yes, they now allow me out of the east wing of Bedlam for a few hours each
>day :-)
LOL.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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