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@...>