Re: Yet another introduction

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 23:22:50 +0400, Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...> wrote:

>Hi again,
>Well, until now I have not taken the trouble to introduce myself, so I
>do so.
>I'm 16, living in Moscow and right now preparing for my exams in
>summer - first school finals and then entrance the Department of
>Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, Moscow State
>University.
Privet! Greetings from another Moscovite!

>Though I don't read Reichenbach (non cuivis contingit adire
>Corinthum), I am not wholly unlettered.
Who's that? I'm lazy to google for his name ;)

>I've been trying to put together a conlang I could have liked for the
>past year or so, and my current project, Tolwd, seems to appeal to me.
>It is a kind of mix between Welsh (of which I do enjoy the sound),
>Hungarian (which I just like a hell lot), and Chinese (which I'm
>absolutely in love with, studying in a school specializing in Oriental
>studies).
Sounds like a fairly good background. We take you ;)

>Tolwd is characterized by a fairly straightforward phonological system.
>In morphonology, its main characteristic is vowel harmony with vowel
>roundedness as the hallmark (so it has the rounded o, w [u], u (German
>u-umlaut, in case it's all garbled) and o (o-umlaut), unrounded a, u
>(Russian/Polish [y]), i, e, and the neutral y (schwa)).
It seems that your mailer drops diactitics. Or perhaps you copy'n'paste
between Explorer and some other program. To avoid such troubles, I'd
suggest posting directly from:

http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/conlang.html

- and using Netscape or some other software that doesn't pretend to be
more clever than its owner ;)

>It has a relatively simple noun morphology (the object/subject
>distinction is almost completely demolished, and there is third Dative
>case),
That is, three cases, partly homophonic, one of them dative? Or what is
'third dative'?

>but the verb is awful - it just comes out of control! It has
>three separate inflectional paradigms for the verb, having to do with
>whether the subject/object is definite and/or associated with a
>possessive.
Like in Hungarian, for objects (IIRC)?


Basilius

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