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Re: Fictional auxlangs as artlangs (was Re: Poll)

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Thursday, December 18, 2008, 11:55
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 00:11, Chris Peters <beta_leonis@...> wrote:
> Regarding the subject-object prefixes, I seem to recall reading of a feature like this > (at least a limited version) existing in some Native American languages. If I > remember, this feature exists to some degree in Lakhota (there used to be a > Lakhota class taught at a university in Nebraska, where I live, and I briefly > skimmed the textbook.) This feature in Lakhota might even be extremely > limited -- only first-person subject, second-person object. Or something > along those lines.
That reminds me of the Hungarian verb suffix -lek, which is "first-person subject, second-person object" IIRC -- and also the only such "double" suffix. Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>