Re: Emphasis (or an excuse to display my lang)

Matthew Kehrt <matrix14@...> wrote:
>
> Does anyone else have a way to show emphasis as part of the grammar of
> their lang, as opposed to being communicated by intonation?
>
> In Eviendadil, the part of a sentence that is emphasized is the only
> part conjugated (or declined, or whatever...)
I *love* that! But... (there's always a but)... it doesn't seem
very naturalistic. Unless Eviendadil is not a human language, or
is con-constructed or something like that. Anyway this system is
so neat that you can leave naturality aside and blinking in
amazement for a while.

> Adjectives and adverbs can also be emphisized by conjugating (or
> whatever) only them.
Hmm... how do you decline them?

I'd like to know if there's any natlang or conlang in here that
does something like this. I guess some languages will do something
similar, for example, when an optional feature (e. g. number) is
marked for emphasis -- but this emphasizes the number, not the
whole noun as a topic.


--Pablo Flores
  http://draseleq.conlang.org/