Re: idea: environment pronoun

<skip that from various about their environmental pronouns>
Sturnan, being already developed enough to quash such a basic change,
would probably mimic it by having two subjects. One would probably be the
normal "it". When the verb is intransitive, the subject would come after
the verb. (This in no way makes Sturnan ergative. At least, I won't admit
that it does, not in a dozen or so years.)

Vot welku ikerag.
It    rain    make-3s.

Vot Dasen asag.
It    Jason  is.

Halvag    vot.
Happens it.

If you're not going to denote a thing by extra words or by infixes,
you'll probably denote it by word order. Or you could leave it to whoever
is unlucky enough to come across to figure out.

The slightly confused
Chris Wright

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