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Re: What do you think of the "feel"?

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 23, 2005, 3:10
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

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