Re: Not linear writen forms?
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 5, 2003, 3:17 |
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>i don't have anything like that, but in dgsrdmaphkaskrht, possessive
>pronouns are suffixed in speach and prefixed (and reversed) in
>writing... for example if the 1ps possessive pronoun was /-in/ (i don't
>remember if it is and i'm too lazy to go look it up) a word like /kapanin/
>would be written as if it were /nikapan/... do any other langs (con- or
>nat-) do this?
I'm not aware of any natlangs which do that, but that's no proof they don't
exist. I do know that I was brainstorming a year ago with a friend re:
mechanisms not found in natlangs, and one of the few we came up with was
reversing the spelling of a word to create the inverse.
E.g. "dam" /display emotions/, "mad" /hide emotions/
Elgin's Laadan adopted a couple of instances of this, but it's standard
method is to prefix /ra/ to the word.
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