Re: your conlang, please? (Rich Aunt gets hold of the Lunatic Survey)
From: | Clinton Moreland-Stringham <morelanc@...> |
Date: | Friday, October 2, 1998, 5:27 |
> >11) what your conlang is called,
Aelya
>
> >12) what are its unique features, and
very flexible grammar, moving from extremely formulaic (an example
phrase: "into the blackthorn" theraminna) and agglutinative (high
register) to the isolating and low register (mi na'n thera - lit. inside
to the blackthorn)
flexible nominal/verbal categorization (le ataruvan "you will be
my father" with atar "father" being a verb vs. ataryn delle "my father
went" with atar as a noun)
classifiers: 9 classifiers which indicate general shape/category
of every noun, as well as plurality, in some cases (e.g. al "wood" can be
in al "the stump (a living chunk of wood)" n'al "the stumps" c' al "the
wooden ball (or any roughly spherical piece of wood)" l'al "the board (or
other long skinny piece of wood, more likely a pole)" etc)
pronouns suffixes which serve as subject markers, object markers,
AND possessive markers (e.g. anna - to give, annan - I give, annas - he
gives, annanyes - I give it (n/nye = I, s/r = he/she/it), annan - my gift)
three virtual tenses (somewhat similar to the irrealis or
subjunctive): potential, virtual, and probable.
no words for good, bad, moral, immoral, evil, etc.
>
> > 13) whether you have a website.
>
Not really.
Clinton