? ? ? How much data in your conlang nouns?

Al Guien scrievit:

>> 1. Number (such as singular, dual, plural)
>> 2. Gender (such as masc., fem., neut.)
>> 3. Class or Declension (Varies with language)
>> 4. Case (nom., dat., gen., etc. varies with
>> language) 5. Social mode (formal, informal, >>
royal, sacred, who knows)

Let's see. Kerno has two numbers (s., pl.), three
genders (m., f., epic.), three cases (nom, dat,
obl) and a fouth in the plural (pos) and 16 noun
classes. If I did the maths right, that's only
360 possibilities. Happily, they're almost always
pronounced /@/, so that makes things rather
easier. Probably not really 360, since the noun
class markers often double as case/number markers
as well. Oo, forgot to add in those confounded
mutations. Oh well, that's too much like the
calculus for me!

Padraic.


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