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Re: Using Case to Show Tense

From:Damian Yerrick <tepples@...>
Date:Thursday, March 24, 2005, 3:32
"Edward Miller" <sewerbird@...> wrote:
> I wonder how many grammatical items you can express using the same > three case markings... *evil laugh*. The main issue lies in the human > mind parsing it all >.< > I suppose I could always make a conculture made of lilliputians with > heads the size of melons?
Perhaps a race of anime characters that got stuck in their chibi forms, reproduced, and then had to evolve up from there?
> In ending, I would also appreciate suggestions on introducing aspect > into this system: my design goal for the inflectional aspect (pardon > the pun) of the language is to indicate as much information about the > verb as possible on its nouns, without making the nouns look like > Y'upik Eskimo
You could always make the verbs into clitics like S11 ;-) -- Damian

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