Re: Tonal inflection?
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 17:00 |
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Dana Nutter <li_sasxsek@...> wrote:
> For example nouns having a pattern of 135 would be nominative and 531 accusative
> while the dative may be 411, and the locative 252, etc.
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> Verbs could have their own patterns to indicate tense and aspect, maybe a 135 to
> indicate the present continuous for example, while 13 might be past
> continuous, and 35 for the future.
Ithkuil uses tone for several inflectional categories including
degree of comparison and mood.
How many syllables are your noun and verb roots liable to have?
It seems like those might be too many/complex tone distinctions
to make over a single syllable. But I'm not particularly good
with tones so maybe not the person you should ask about this.
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