Re: Person marking on nouns

Hi!

Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> writes:
> 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:
>...
>From this natlang and discussions on this list I stole the feature for
S11 (working title Tesäfköm).  It will have only personal marking on
nouns and no pronouns at all.

BTW: I made some extraordinary progress in S11 syntax during the last
few days!  The current version of the syntax, although not totally
complete, is now LALR(1) parsable meaning that I have a bison grammar
for it.  Yay!  The best thing is that it is almost my initial grammar
sketch so that it feels nicely esthetical to me.  It took a while to
convince bison that to understand what I want, but now, I'm happy! :-)

**Henrik

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