Flaidish

So Haleza Grise · Post by **So Haleza Grise** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 9:57 pm

Okay, so it was late last night, I couldn't get to sleep, so i thought to myself, "hey, let's try some morphophonemic analysis! Good practice for future fieldwork!"

Anyways, this is what I came up with. Would I be right in assuming that von is a verb, and -po is some sort of subordinating marker?

Se mossno ?okry maxt.
You might wash my rabbit.

Se von seva ?aadpo ?y crett.
You didn?t give me a hand.

Post by **zompist** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 1:18 am

So Haleza Grise wrote:Would I be right in assuming that von is a verb, and -po is some sort of subordinating marker?

Se mossno ?okry maxt.
You might wash my rabbit.

Se von seva ?aadpo ?y crett.
You didn?t give me a hand.

Good analysis, and yes on both questions. The only error is that "se" doesn't repeat in the second sentence; it should be:

Seva von ?aadpo ?y crett.

(Now I have to work out at least one surprise in the finished language!)

Iscun · Post by **Iscun** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 8:29 am

zompist wrote:(Now I have to work out at least one surprise in the finished language!)

Holy cow! It's finished!? Will you be posting it soon?

Post by **zompist** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 1:48 am

Iscun wrote:
zompist wrote:(Now I have to work out at least one surprise in the finished language!)
Holy cow! It's finished!? Will you be posting it soon?

Heh, no, it's kind of blocked right now. I mean, I've already discussed the grammatical elements I've worked out-- if I don't add more it'll seem like an anticlimax when you do see it.