Re: introduction...

On Friday, December 7, 2001, at 10:22 , Talpas Tim wrote:

> I've been lurking on the list for quite some time, and as I've recently
> semi-completed a web page for my most recent conlang, Taiksiri, I thought
> i'd finally post and share.
>
Aiya!  ("Hello" in Jesse Stephen Bang's Yivríndil)

> One of the more interesting features of Taiksiri (i feel) is relative
> marking
> on verbs:  for transitive verbs, a different suffix is used depending
> on whether the object person (absolutive) is higher, lower, or the same
> as the subject (ergative).
>
Do you mean physically higher, e.g. fellow on the roof is "higher" than
the fella standing next to the fireplace on the ground floor?  Or status,
or something else entirely?  What a neat concept, whichever way.  :-)

> I'm tentatively using the terms "centrifugal", "centripital", and
> "stative",
> respectively.
>
(Centripetal?  The physics people are gonna like this one.  <G>)

>        EX:     ios aloal = i love you (-l suffix is centrifugal: 1 -> 2)
>                ae aloal = you love him/her (centrifugal: 2 -> 3)
>                ae aloan = you love me (-n suffix is centripital, 2 -> 1)
>
> You can find more examples and a better description on my page at:
>
>      http://www.zece.com/conlang/
>
Great website.  :-)  I especially enjoy the script; were there any
particular influences or inspirations you could share?  I am also curious
as to the romanization of the vowels: some use the diaresis while others
take the circumflex; any particular reason?  (I also confess some of  your
characters are appearing as British pound symbols and copyright
symbols...I will have to figure out how to get my browser to stop doing
that.)

> I'd be intereested in hearing if anyone else has a similar system
> in their conlang or knows of a natlang that does (hungarian
> definite/indefinite
> comes sorta close)
Nope--closest thing I can think of is some Pacific-area language (?) that
has demonstratives that indicate vertical distance, or somesuch.

Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com]
http://pegasus.cityofveils.com

Pi equals 3, for small values of pi and large values of 3.

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