Re: USAGE: Name clitics (was Re: USAGE: What gender is _Wikipedia_ in German?)

Hi!

Eric Christopherson writes:
>...
> > I think it's an interesting feature.
>
> It's very interesting!  I have thought about including something like
> it in a conlang, but so far haven't quite done it.  Do you know the
> origins of those clitics?  And does anyone know of other languages
> that do that?
>...
My conlang S11 has a similar thing, but mainly for ensuring
self-segregation for foreign words: you prefix the word with
(something similar to) pani- and suffix it will -it.  The -i- may be a
different vowels and the -a- is adjusted to obey vowel harmony.

I have not thought about native names, though, but if they will need
marking, it will be different from the one used for ensuring
self-segregation.

Anyway, Chinese has a name marker used when no title or given name is
used, probably because using just one syllable is too ambiguous.  I
posted this already a while ago (seen on a van):

   Li3 shi4       Ya4zhou1 Shi2pin3 Gong1si1
   Li  <the_name> Asian    Food     Company

**Henrik