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Re: Person marking on nouns

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Monday, December 26, 2005, 8:56
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 03:43:12 -0500, Chris Bates
<chris.maths_student@...> wrote:

> A while ago on the ZBB and on the conlang list we had a discussion about > person marking on nouns, since I'd incorporated it into my conlang at > the time (which I'm doing a bit of work on at the moment). At the time I > had difficulty citing a clear example of a natlang that had such marking.
Elamite clearly had distinct, obligatory person/gender marking on nouns: 1st -k 2nd -t 3rd Anim Sg -r 3rd Anim Pl -p 3rd Inanim -me (where the basic meaning of the root is naturally animate e.g. king > kingdom) 3rd Inanim -0 (otherwise) These are distinct from the markers on verbs: 1 sg -h pl -hu 2 sg -t pl -ht 3 sg -S pl -hS (where |S| is s-caron) I know I've mentioned this in the past. I'm sorry if I missed your particular thread. I do try to read everything on this list, but I'm not a ZBB member. Paul

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