Re: Tensed Pronouns (was: Tagalog ...)
From: | dunn patrick w <tb0pwd1@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, March 3, 1999, 15:32 |
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, And Rosta wrote:
> John Cowan:
> > Here are some "tensed pronouns" from a rather better-known lang:
> >
> > Tense/mood 1sg 2sg+pl 3sg/m 3sg/f 3sg/n 1p 3p
> >
> > Unmarked @j j@ i Si @t wi De
> > Conditional @jd j@d id Sid @t@d wid Dejd
> > Immediate future Ajm@n@ jug@n@ ig@n@ Sig@n@ Ig@n@ wig@n@ Dejg@n@
> > Future Ajl jul il Sil It@l wil Dejl
>
> Did you make that up on the fly, or is this from a project you're
> actively working on? I ask because during the last few weeks I have,
> to my surprise, found myself working on a conlang (a kind of aposteriori
> artlang, which I today named /br+S/ (no orthography yet; + = barred I)),
> which is rather similar, though the analysis says they're morphological
> fusions of subject concord prefixes (or clitics) with auxiliaries. If
> you are working on something similar, perhaps it might be a cousin of
> /br+S/, which in /br+S/ would probably be called /mekn/.
> --And.
>
It's English. ;) Look closely.
--Patrick