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Re: Conlang Typology Survey

From:Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
Date:Thursday, May 22, 2003, 14:13
>>I'm not sure what you mean by these construction state things. What are >>they? > >Like in Hebbrew, in possessive constructions it is the possessed word which >receives a special form rather than the possessor.
If I remember correctly, Turkish does something similar except that both the posessor and posessed change. The structure is something like: - woman's dog-her - My Bes Dis'z has - pes pil's - - a Pes book-belonging-to -
>And would you be insane enough to guess that the 1st person singular >masculine proximate initial form pronoun written |eu| is actually >pronounced [da]? ;)))) (and that its non-initial subject form is still >written |eu| but pronounced [Ue], and its non-initial non-subject form is >written |eudft|, but this time still pronounced [Ue]? ;)))) )
You win. My brain hurts. :-) _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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