What's your favorite thing about your conlang?
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:43 pm
The title's pretty straightforward. Any quirks or perks pertaining to your conlang that you can't help but favor?
I've recently written a post on my grammar blog about verb nominalizations, and how the nominalizations can take subjects and objects, as verbs are conjugated before they are nominalized. Ex:
I've recently written a post on my grammar blog about verb nominalizations, and how the nominalizations can take subjects and objects, as verbs are conjugated before they are nominalized. Ex:
- Sgẃscogudatha telívyta mie.
sgẃsc-o-g-u-da-tha telív-y-ta m-ie
school-DAT.SG-GO-1.SG-OBLIG-NOMI-NOM.SG arrive-3.SG-NEG 1-DAT.SG
The me having to go to school doesn't arrive to me.
"I don't like having to go to school."
Thẃlsgymughytha tfamh ólsa févnisym telívyta mie.
thẃlsg-ym-u-gh-y-tha tfamh ólsa févn-i-s-ym telív-y-ta m-ie
wake-INTR-1.SG-CAUS-3.SG-NOMI-NOM.SG early.ADJ-NOM.SG by.from mother-NOM.SG-POSS-1.SG arrive-3.SG-NEG 1-DAT.SG
The her making me wake up early by my mom doesn't arrive to me.
"I don't like my mom making me wake up early."
- Týmdyrucatha pwórgisym telívyta févnosym.
týmd-y-r-u-ca-tha pwórg-i-s-ym telív-y-ta févn-o-s-ym
search.for-3.SG-1.SG-FREQ-NOMI-NOM.SG dog-NOM.SG-POSS-1.SG arrive-3.SG-NEG mother-DAT.SG-POSS-1.SG
The it searching for my of my dog does not arrive to my mother.
"My mom doesn't like that my dog keeps looking for me."