Re: First Post and Proto-Conlang rough sketch

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 02:46:03 -0500, Jason Monti <yukatado@...> wrote:

>While I wanted to avoid inflection at this stage, I think that system that
>compounds verbs with pronouns is prudent for allowing Pro-Dropping. No
>pronoun is necessary in Third-Person sentences that have an actual Subject
>that is not a Pronoun. In Third-Person sentences where the subject IS only a
>pronoun, it will not be added to the verb, but precede it as with normal
>subjects (the reason should be obvious when you scroll down some).
Alright, after more thought, forget this part. I've decided to go for
straight isolating at this point, except where two words compound to form a
new word - but no inflections.

>Since I grew up always associating the base form of a noun as including
>article (be it a, an, or the), and with the base form of a verb as
including "to",
>all nouns will be given in the form of "a NOUN" and all verbs will be given
in the
>form of "to VERB".
>
>First rudements of vocabulary:
>
>I/me - `weh
>thou/thee - key`
>
>we/us (exclusive) - kweh (a merger of key` and `weh at an earlier stage that
>behaved somewhat differently than this stage of the language)
>we/us (inclusive) - hwe (another merger and severe degridation of
>redubplicated `weh at an earlier stage that behaved somewhat differently
>than this stage of the language)
>ye/you - keyk (another merger and severe degridation of redubplicated "key"
>at an earlier stage that behaved somewhat differently than this stage of the
>language)
>
>a person - hey`
>
>this - ker`
>that - ser`
>
>what? - der`
>
>this person - hoykr`
>that person - hoysr`
>
>who? - hoydr`
>
>to be - `er`

Forget these as well. I need to relex them completely - but before that, I
need to get over my bias against pronouns that excede a single syllable.

Also, the unaccompanied verb (no modals, tense, auxiliaries, etc...) will,
unlike English, be the true present tense: I see X, I am eating X (for example).