Re: Correlatives (was Re(2): Re(2): Re(2): basque article)

Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...> wrote:
>
> Well, i'm not planning on an Auxlang (something i'm personally not very
> interested in). Tagalog has some pronouns that are fairly regular in
> construction:
>
> not quite like Zamenhofs correlatives but they are surprisingly regular
> for a natlang :).
It depends on how they have been formed. If they were (linguistically
speaking) recently created from compounds, then they're bound to be
regular for some time.
I think Japanese correlatives are remarkably regular too:

kore, sore, are, dore (this one, that one, yonder one, which one)
kono, sono, ano, dono (this, that, yonder, which)
(these are called the 'ko/so/a/do words').
etc.

Japanese also saves some demonstratives by using postclitic particles:
nani 'who', nani ka 'someone', nani mo 'everyone'
itsu 'when', itsu ka 'some time', itsu mo 'always'

(_ka_ is normally the question-mark particle after verbs, and _mo_,
among other functions, joins noun phrases).


--Pablo Flores