Re: mandatory possession in Chasma"o"cho

"Grandsire, C.A." wrote:
> NOTE 2: When used with an adjective that follows the noun, the adjective
> must also carry the same possessive suffix as the noun, as a kind of
> "agreement in possession". So 'my woodlike ear' (silly example, but I
> can't find another adjective right now) is:
> 'hec roesze"u"thac' /h'Ek ROjs'2T@k/ or
> 'hetarc roesze"u"thutarc' /het'aRk ROjs'2T@t@Rk/
Groovy, I was thinking of using something like that in Watakassi'.
Possessive suffixes are used with inalienable possession, but are not
mandatory, and are placed before case and number suffixes, so "my
mothers (ergative)" is _tinnani'kwail_ = tin-nani'-kwa-i-l =
Female.plural-mother-my-plural-erg (mother is often used metaphorically
for ancestresses), while "my houses (ergative)" is _pifsani'lil-kwa_ =
pif-sani'-li-l=kwa = Gender7.plural-house-plural-ergative=my.  When
added as inalienable possession, it is pronounced with the high tone
from the word, but when not, is in low tone.

Anyhoo, I was thinking of making it "agree" when inalienable, so "my old
mother" would be:
tinani'kwa titika'kwa = ti-nani'-kwa ti-tika'-kwa = female-mother-my
female-old-my
But "my old house" would be:
pisani'-kwa pitika' = Gender.7-house=my Gender.7-old

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