Re: Person marking on nouns
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 26, 2005, 8:56 |
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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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