Hi!
Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...> writes:
> Here are some examples from the grammar I'm currently writing of my
> long-stalled-very-slowly-developing conlang. These are examples I
> wrote today in the first big burst of work in a while.
> I'd like your opinion on: how it looks, and whether you think it
> sounds good....
The sound was a bit hard to judge for me. I *think* I'd like the
sound, though. :-)
> ic’a:makhina’a
> /itS_>a:mak_hina?a/
> ic’a:-ma-khi-na-’a
> house-plur-pos-3rd.fem-3rd.inanim
> (Those) houses of hers/theirs
>
> ’uhamakhigura
> /?uhamak_higura/
> ’-uha-ma-khi-gu-ra
> 3rd.common/inanim-do-plur-dat-1st.inc-desir.
> If only they would do (it) for us!
I assume it is no coincidence that the dative case infix is the same
as the possessive? Nice.
Funny you mark (subject?) arguments as prefixes but possessives and
demonstrative as suffixes.
>...
> umahi nikhuq’aru
> /umahi nik_huq_>aru/
> uma-hi n-ikhu-q’aru
> woman-2nd 1st.sing.pres-see-surp.
> I see you!
So no pronouns? You'd use a normal noun with a 2rd person suffix?
*Henrik