Re: revisions in Tepa number marking

At 11:00 am -0600 17/8/00, dirk elzinga wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Raymond Brown wrote:
>
>> I haven't learnt any artlang basically for the reasons the Grey Wizard gave
>> in his email. But if I had to choose one to learn, it would be Tepa.
>
><BLINK> Why, thank you! I suppose that you might be disappointed to
>learn that Tepa is undergoing a rather large makeover then ...
<sigh> Oh, well, it'll have to be Kinya then  ;)

Thinks: What's the betting Maurizio will tell us about a rather large
makeover in Kinya?

[....]
>article that I paid attention to. Basically, roots undergo morphology
>to create predicates; clitics are attached to predicates to make
>sentences. Arguments are indicated solely by affixes and clitics (the
>Pronominal Argument Hypothesis), and referring expressions are
>completely optional. (Now I'm not a syntactician by training, but
>this is the kind of thing that almost makes me want to change my
>mind.)
I've been thinking along similar lines recently - maybe I should try to
take a look at the article.

[....]
>
>If this post seems a bit scattered or unorganized then it's an
>accurate reflection of my state of mind WRT Tepa.
...that an artlang is, like a work of art, never completed.   :)

Ray.

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