Re: Emphasis markers

>Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
>I'm curious to see how other conlangs have marked
>emphatic forms. Do you use ephasis marking words or
>does your language have a different, emphatic form for
>some words? Which part of the sentence is marked?
I'm aware of only one emphatic marker in Senjecas.  The deictic
adjectives "this" and "that" are pronouns in Senjecas and, as such,
are in apposition to their noun and follow it.  Thus, "this ostrich"
becomes "ostrich this" in Senjecas, i.e., _jâânes des_.  These two
deictic adjectives can take an emphatic marker, -ÿ-: _jâânes deÿês_
meaning something like "this ostrich right here as opposed to that
one over there."

Of course, that other ostrich could be emphasized: _jâânes
neÿês_, "that ostrich over there as opposed to this one right here.

Using a noun from another class, we might have: _dêmos deÿôs_, "this
house right here."  And _dêmos neÿôs_, "that house over there."

BTW, <ÿ> = /j_0/.

Charlie