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Re: [romconlang] Re: Lethino Pronouns

That idea certainly has legs. I was begining to think myself that that was probably where I would find my solution. 

I shall have to go and re-sharpen my pencil and have a good hard think.


Pete.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Thalmann" <cinga@hidden.email> 
To: <romconlang@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 3:18 PM
Subject: [romconlang] Re: Lethino Pronouns


--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Collier" <petecollier@...>


It's a conundrum.I could "cheat" and make some drastic changes to the
phonological development, but wheres the fun in that?  Also moves it

all

away from the OHG, which I want to keep as much as possible.


Natlangs also cheat when they run into such trouble.  If two
forms lose their distinctness, try to steal a form from another
case where ambiguity is less likely, or built a new form out of
a circumlocutory phrase.  Let's assume you don't like the fact
that the nom. pl. and gen. sg. of Gall "rooster" look the same
(G�ll? G�lle?).  Maybe people began to use a possessive pronoun
construction to augment the genitive: *galli suum rostrum >
G�llse Ruster.  Ta-da, your new genitive form is now G�llse.

Anyway, ambiguity of endings is not such a bad things,
especially across declension boundaries.  The noun ending -e in
Italian can be singular or plural, depending on the word.  No
problem with that.

Oh, and Krauer is indeed a cool word.  Pfi nulls �uers hat, hat
Krauer.  :D


-- Christian Thalmann