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

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Sunday, December 12, 1999, 20:48
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/