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Re: Prepositions

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Monday, May 13, 2002, 21:29
From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>

> After an extremely long silence about my conlang, mostly spent researching > and experimenting in my obscure little conlang lab in the corner, I've > finally produced the prepositional system of the language of the Ebisedi.
> The directional syllable indicate motion relative to the point indicated > by the locational syllable. There are three possible directional > syllables: a- (away from), u- (towards, into), i- (at, coincident with).
Tech uses the three apex vowels in a similar way, usually with demonstrative pronouns: /i/ for things near the speaker ("here"), /a/ for things near the addressee ("there"), and /u/ for things neither near the speaker nor addressee ("there yonder"). They are related to the first, second, and third person concepts. Also, there are actually three different third persons in Tech, in the same categories: "him/her/it over here with me", "him/her/it over there where you are", and "him/her/it over yonder". They are indicated by the three same vowels and are all based on the third person forms of the verb (the personal infixes are all consonant-based). ~Danny~

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