Re: yet another new conlang web page

>        This is what you get for letting me read a Japanese grammar: my
>new language Kusthu".  It came to me in a flurry of inspiration last
>weekend and I haven't been able to stop working on it since.
Very nice!  Two points of clarification/correction/whatever:  First, you
have the sentence:

        pfus im ty  dend si  mak    im nga ksette
        dog  my NOM bird GEN friend my ACC attack
        "My dog attacked my friend's bird"

Shouldn't that be "Pfus im ty mak im si dend nga ksette"?  The way you
have it, it should mean something like "My dog attacked a bird's friend
of mine" (?).

Also, you give the sentence:

        se  si  mak    ve  rus  nga to"mma
        you GEN friend DAT book ACC give-1P
        "I gave the book to a friend"

What's the "se si" doing there?  Does the sentence actually mean "I gave
the book to YOUR friend"?  And if so, why "se si" and not the postnominal
particle meaning "your" (can't remember what it is... "is" or something)?

Keep up the good work!

Matt.

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Matt Pearson
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UCLA Linguistics Department
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