Re: Person marking on nouns?

Carlos Thompson wrote:

> Tokcir marks nouns for posesiveness.
>
> I once deviced a conlang marking nouns for either gender or person:
>   friend-1st : I (who is a friend) ...
>   friedn-2nd : you (who are a friend) ...
>   friend-3rd_fem : friend (female)
>   friedn-3rd_masc : friend (male)
>
> but I didn't developed that idea further.
Hmmmm! I like this!  :-)  I will integrate it into Shaquelingua but not as a
noun marking system but as a system allowing an adjective to be attached to
a personal pronoun. There are already pronouns in Shaquelingua, I can't
remove them! The limit between adjectives and nouns doesn't exist in
Shaquelingua, so I will be able to say things like this:

govilø-kjo ! [govi49^kjo] = Listen to me, I'm your friend/friendly!
govilø-rjë ! [govi49^xjE] = Hey, my friend! (Hey, friendly you!)
xikkófill-tojj. [x\ik?kOfi4:^toj:] = This is my lover. (Here he/she comes.)
tos'saaraju-çaki. [tos(o)^saaxaju^Caki] = We, linguists, would.
tev'blëdizju-tali. [tev(e)^blEdi.zju^tali] = The doctors, they did.

(Straightforward translation aren't possible and the interlinear would be
just more confusing.)

Now, I think I will never finish the grammar of Shaquelingua if I keep on
fishing ideas everywhere...  ;-)

bi-kaçtólu soe, [bi:^ka.CtOlu soe] (Until soon,)

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Remi Villatel
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