Re: How much data in your conlang nouns?
From: | David Peterson <thatbluecat@...> |
Date: | Sunday, January 4, 2004, 9:05 |
Gary wrote:
<<1. Number (such as singular, dual, plural)
2. Gender (such as masc., fem., neut.)
3. Class or Declension (Varies with language)
4. Case (nom., dat., gen., etc. varies with language)
5. Social mode (formal, informal, royal, sacred, who
knows)>>
Okie doke. Zhyler has singular and plural, 17 noun classes, and 57 cases.
That comes to 1,938. However, I'm not sure about including noun classes in
this list... Or maybe I just don't understand how noun classes would be the
same as the plural. If you strip away the plural, the noun case, etc., you
still have a basic nominal idea. If you strip away the noun class, you can
end up with either nothing or something completely different--same goes for the
gender (e.g., "niño" = "boy" in Spanish, but "niñ-" = ?). Or am I
overthinking this?
-David
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