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--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Christian Thalmann"
<cinga@g...> wrote:
> I think I'm going to drop the case inflections of |ci cae cod|
> "who, what, which" and |aegi, aegae, aegod| "any, whoever,
> whatever", marking them by an article as well. That would
> also allow the distinction between |un cod| [@N gA] "a what" =
> "what; one which" and |id cod| [ik kA] "the what" = "which one;
> the one which".
I forgot to mention my solution for |aegi, aegae, aegod|: I
simply reduced them to an indeclinable |aege| and require the
indefinite article afterwards: |aege u mare| "any a man".
In fact, I like this concept so much that I might do the same
for the "none", "every" and "whole" constructions. Making the
quantifier indeclinable removes a lot of unsightly final /s/es
etc. =P The definiteness of the article will vary, though.
Thus: |aege u mare| "any a man"
|nuole u mare| "none a man"
|toze u mare| "whole a man"
|oene u mare| "every a man"
But declinable versions of |nuole|, |oene| etc. will still
exist, e.g. |duo tozi appels| [du@ 'do:zi 'app@ls] "two whole
apples" or |in oenes aedades| [in Ajnz E'da:dz] "for all time".
-- Christian Thalmann