Re: ciantwo class system

Plants, places, and points don't have a marked plural.

I'm not sure I'm using obviative correctly, but if it's what I think
it is, it's what you use to differentiate two members of the same
class: e.g. "He hit him."  Ambiguous.  "He hit him.OBV" means the guy
you were talking about first hit the guy you were talking about
second.  Kind of like "hic" and "ille" in Latin.


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Nik Taylor wrote:

> Ed Heil wrote:
> > PRONOUN    CLITIC   OBVIATIVE  MEANING
> >  doen        de        je       PERSON
> >  soen        se        ce       PERSON-PLURAL
> >  dsuam       dsu      dsyu      ANIMAL
> >  suam        su        syu      ANIMAL-PLURAL
> >  wain        wa        --       PLANT
> >  toes        te        tye      CONSTRUCT
> >  tuas        tu        tyu      CONSTRUCT-PLURAL
> >  goen        ge        gwe      THING
> >  moen        me        ---      THING-PLURAL/STUFF
> >  kau         ka        kya      PLACE
> >  ki          ki        kwi      POINT
>
> Hmm, what about PLANT-PLURAL, PLACE-PLURAL and POINT-PLURAL?  Also, what
> exactly is "obviative"?
>
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