OT: clitic conjunctions (was sorta OT: cases: please help...)

On Saturday, December 8, 2001, at 06:48 , Andreas Johansson wrote:

> YHL wrote:
>> ObConlang: I think the only clitics I've got in *any* of my conlangs are
>> the conjunctions in Tasratal, which behave like the Latin "[X] [Y]que":
>> [snip]
>> "Yoon" "Yune"-ga-zel : Yoon OR Yune
>>
>> "Yoon" "Yune"-ken-ga-zel : Yoon XOR Yune
>
> Neat. However, I strongly suspect that XOR is more common than OR in
> normal
> speech (ie English "or" mainly means XOR, but doubles up as OR), so
> perhaps
> it'd make more sense to have XOR as the less marked form.
<nod>  I see your point, the problem is these are "compounds" derived from
several connectives glued together.  So "-ga-zel" = existence-uncertain +
AND, and
"-ken-ga-zel" = apart (detachor) + existence-uncertain + AND.  :-p
Unnatural and hideous, yes.  But it makes *some* kind of sense, I hope...

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