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Re: Person marking on nouns

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 27, 2005, 22:12
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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