Re: My Grammatical Sketch (again!)

On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Daniel Andreasson wrote:

> Myself, I'm thinking about making Rinya both head and
> dependent marking (and head initial). Something like:
>
> Reigar           rewecyn      iyn
> Vegetable:PL-ABS green:PL-ABS the:PL-ABS
>
> cwet-a-ri-sh             dich-en    in-en
> buy-PRES-3sg:SUB-3sg:OBJ father-ERG the-ERG
Don't you need "buy-PRES-3sg:SUB-3pl:OBJ", as the green vegetables
are marked plural?

> 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?
Yes, I like it too; makes me wish Valdyan wasn't so far developed
already. It's not like me to start a new language just to try out
interesting features (I don't keep 48-hour days and I'd rather use my
time and energy for what I'm already working on), or to change
retroactively what is already there.

   Irina

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