Re: My first romlang sentence

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:43:20 -0500, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
wrote:

> Posting here for general approval before taking it to the romlang group
> where it belongs...
>
> I made a try at my first guess at a sentence in my nascent romlang. It
> deviates from tradition in that the second NP is indefinite instead of
> definite. This is on purpose, to let me see what I think of the system
> for marking NPs as such.
What tradition?

> La agilleta, purra hualpa suilet serca nesigia ncaña.
> /la agil_jeta pura walpa silet se4ka nesidZa N_0an_ja/
>
> I might make it based on an island in the British Channel (ish) instead
> of the Mediterranian.
What, the Mediterranian's not good enough for you?

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:58:01 -0500, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
wrote:

> I've started work on case. So far, I think I'll have three cases,
> nominative, accusative and oblique.
>
> Herewith, my test sentence, with case and gender marked, and without
> making the second NP indefinite. It may have been apparent that I will
> be using nasal mutation to mark the indefinite, thus /un kan_jus/ ->
> /n=kan_jus/ -> /N=kan_jus/ -> /N_0an_jus/.
>
> Lo agilleto purro hualpo suilet serca lo desigius cañus.
> /lo adZil_jeto pura walpo silet se4ka lo desidZus kan_jus/
>
> ART ADJ-m:nom:sg ADJ-m:nom:sg N-m:nom:sg V-3:s:present PREP ART
> ADJ-m:obl:sg N-m:obl:sg
>
>Paul
Interesting that you're putting the adjectives before the nouns, unlike
most romlangs.

So when _are_ you going to bring this to romconlang?

Jeff

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