Re: How much data in your conlang nouns?

Staving Chris Bates:
>Joe wrote:
>
>>David Peterson wrote:
>>
>>>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

Khangaþyagon has a system of 6 ranks of suffixes (segunakar, literally
"follow-parts) carrying grammatical information.

Modsegunakar (suffix 1)
Relative relationships - this, that, what, no, you topical vocative
Densegunakar (suffix 2)
Proximity - at, in contact, with, without, near, far
Radsegunakar (suffix 3)
Position - in, outside, around, above, below, left, beside, right, alligned
with, in front of, behind.
Karvsegunakar (suffix 4)
Motion - to, from, by.
Sintsegunakar (suffix 5)
Abstract realtionships - of, by, to (recipient), topic, for (benefactive),
on behalf of, for (goal), against.
Bantsegunak (suffix 6)
Plural

Pete

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