Re: Animacy in active languages (was Re: Non-static verbs?)

Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:

>Because of that "{q} as velar nasal" conlang i'm constantly thinking of
>Pablo's conlang Draseléq as if it ended with one of those
>Q-As-Velar-Nasal {q}s.  He uses it for a uvular stop, right?

Yes I do, the unvoiced one (the voiced one is {qg}).

>Hmm...a few years ago my brother and a friend invented
>"second-and-a-half" pronouns - how you refer to someone who's standing
>right there while you're talking to someone else.  Does anyone have a
>conlang that makes use of those?
I have those somewhere (old project), but I think it's quite like
having third person proximate and obviative (or third and fourth
person, as some other people use it). One of the pronouns was used
for third persons not speaking but taking part in the conversation
(or context) around the time of the utterance; the other pronoun
was for third persons who were not present.


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