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Re: My Grammatical Sketch (again!)

From:Daniel Andreasson <noldo@...>
Date:Friday, October 15, 1999, 21:03
Christophe skrev:

> Well, I'm not sure about an interrogative mood, but what I can say is > that the Romance grammatical tradition considers infinitives and > participles to be impersonal moods, whereas indicative, subjunctive =
and
> imperative are personal moods (and if you have an imperative mood, why > not an interrogative one?). =20
Yes. That is most likely the most important question in conlanging: 'Why not?' I like moods, the more the merrier I think. And now: AFMCL: Myself, I'm thinking about making Rinya both head and dependent marking (and head initial). Something like: Reigar rewecyn iyn =20 Vegetable:PL-ABS green:PL-ABS the:PL-ABS=20 cwet-a-ri-sh dich-en in-en buy-PRES-3sg:SUB-3sg:OBJ father-ERG the-ERG 'The father buys the green vegetables.' (Some Rinya words will probably change in the future, not that anyone cares... ;). That is, I mark the arguments both on the verb (with an accusative = system) and on the NPs themselves (with an ergative/'active' system). Somewhat unusual I guess, but why not? I like it. Redundancy rules! What do you think? And just to make it clear. I'm not criticizing Austin in any way.=20 I was just curious about some moods I hadn't heard of before. ---------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Andreasson | daniel@conlang.nu | http://conlang.nu "Mmm... free goo..." - Homer Simpson ----------------------------------------------------------