Re: Comparison of adjectives (was Re: Reviving an old tradition)

Teonaht comparison:

equative:  ta...hdo.  Ta dyssamy hdo myeebi ai.  "As an apple as red it."
comparative:  ta...maka.  Ta fyl hovik maka mohsa al.  "Than your house more
big
    mine."
superlative:  Uses partitive om:  Om nihhovik hse mohsa al.
        "Of houses most big mine."
ALTERATIVE: ta...uor.  Ta fyl hovik uor mohsa al.  "Than your house
differently big is mine."

I added the alterative because the Teonim like the "elinad," a triad which
distinquishes an alterity or otherness between something that is "on the
same road":  either towards Rome or away from it, even if it is referencing
the same value.  They see it as a kind of intersection or "T," leading away.

Interesting how in English we say "My house is bigger than yours," but in
Teonaht, because it is object initial, we say "mine is bigger than your
house."

Sally

I seem to be working backwards here in my replies.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jörg Rhiemeier" <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 4:39 PM
Subject: Comparison of adjectives (was Re: Reviving an old tradition)


> Hallo!
>
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:22:38 -0400, Jeffrey Jones wrote:
>
>> I don't have any translations, but I'm always interested in seeing how
>> comparisons are done. Also equatives, superlatives etc. I'm trying to
>> figure out how "Delta" does these.
>
> In Old Albic (excerpt from http://wiki.frath.net/Old_Albic):
>
> The positive degree is unmarked.  The comparative degree is marked with
> the
> suffix -°r, the superlative degree is marked with the suffix -°th.  There
> is
> also an equative degree (`as ... as'), which is marked with the
> suffix -°ch.
> These forms are the singular OSs; non-singular number forms and agentive
> stems
> are formed from them as shown above. The standard of comparison (i.e., the
> entity to which is compared) is in the locative case.
>
> Examples: _banach albamal_ `as beautiful as an Elf'; _banar chvanal_ `more
> beautiful than a dog'; _banath_ `most beautiful'.
>
> .. brought to you by the Weeping Elf
>