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Re: [romconlang] Declension trouble



Hi!

Peter Collier writes:
>...
> Henrik, any suggestions from the land of the frozen vines?

Do you mean Þrjótur or Germany? :-)

Anyway, as a first attempt to resolve your problem, I could think of:

   - a shift s > z > r (I like that).  Would be interfering with your
     GMP, I suppose, so this probably does not help much...

   - finding analogies in the declensions to make the combination
     article + noun unique again -- if there is any plausible way to
     explain this (in German, it is interesting that the plural of
     feminine nouns is always different from the singular, while
     in maskuline and neuter, it is not -- what a coincidence:
     in the feminine, the articles in sg and pl coincide in
     nom, acc, and gen.),

   - ignoring the problem and just declare it a feature
     (Icelandic's -a,-u declension of feminines has this
     in gen,acc,dat, though the article *is* distinguished,
     so only indefinite noun phrases are underspecified),

   - dropping dative case altogether as quite some Germanic
     languages did.

**Henrik