Re: Emphasis markers

Hi,

Gary has asked for equivalents to emphatics like "what the
heck" and such in our conlangs -- I have not thought about
how to do this in Ayeri yet to be honest. I have not thought
about cussing and strong language in general actually.
Someone else also started reporting on how their conlang
handles emphasis in general -- since Ayeri is a trigger
language, it marks emphasized noun phrases with the trigger,
which is either _-in_ (for animates) or _-on_ (for
inanimates). It is sometimes a bit problematic that only
NPs can be triggered -- verbal nouns do not count as NPs
here. I still have to work out how emphasis can be marked
as well. Since word order is technically irrelevant, maybe
fronting would be an opportunity, but then I had to figure
out how clefts should work. Stress would certianly be
another possibility.

Yours,
Carsten

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"Miranayam kepauarà naranoaris." (Kalvin nay Hobbes)
Palayena, Tyemuyang 16, 2315 ya 14:07:14 pd

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