Re: Language Sketch: Yargish Orkish
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 18, 2002, 15:53 |
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Andreas Johansson wrote:
(snip interesting description. I like.)
>> > PRONOUNS
>> >
>> > Yargish pronouns don't have any gender distinctions, nor any
>> > formal/informal distinctions, which makes for a neat pronoun
>> > table with forms for three persons, two numbers and four cases
>> > (again, the locative is only used with postpositions).
>> >
>> > - 1st.sg 1st.pl 2nd.sg 2nd.pl 3rd.sg 3rd.pl
>> > - abs ang nazur zdi naja ach nava
>> > - erg nga zura zda ja acha va
>> > - dat ngu zuru zdu ju achu vu
>> > - loc ngiz zuriz zdiz jayz achiz naviz
>>
>>[T.Wier] Can you talk a little more about the suppletion here?
>
>As soon as somebody reminds me what "suppletion" means!
Substitution of phonologically unrelated forms in a paradigm (usually old
synonyms) . E.g. English go - went; also for 'go', Span. forms < *vadere in
the pres., vs < *ire in the impf. and fut., and *fu- (!) in the
preterit...and Ital. < *vadere in the pres. sing. but <*andare everywhere
else. Or for that matter, Lat. 'to be', pres. and impf. < IE *es- vs. perf.
< *bhu-
Since na- is your plural marker, one might have expected some combination of
na and ang in the lst pl, na/zdi for 2nd pl. etc. The roots -zur, -ja
and -va are suppletive (apparently).
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