Re: Prepositions

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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