The Dailies. July 13, 2023
Did you work on your language today? Create any new rules of grammar or syntax? New progress on a script? New words in your lexicon?
On the other hand, do any excavating or reading or enjoying stuff you’ve already created? Do you have any favorites to share?
How did you conlang today?
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Been working on a small pileup to be honest. Got some different paths for new sets of demonstratives, which include locative demonstratives, both noun and adjective, with some variations between personal and nonpersonal and like guys, how many pronouns do you need? But it’s all natural evolution of existing small dummy words and suffixes grammaticalizing very naturally, despite preexisting generic demonstratives already available.
Which means they really would happen, since they’re usually filling in the gaps of more specific, but still, not what I was expecting. There is of course, also some dialectical variation, so I’m going to have to start organizing some tables to keep me straight on it, but it is fun, so at least there’s that.
I’ve also uncovered essentially a new category of “light” verb, for a current ad hoc term, which basically loses 90% of the conjugations and ability to take arguments but hasn’t entirely lost verbal variation altogether quite yet (on its way though), e.g.
Looks like Ishiam dialect is making rather productive use of the allative / dative agreement suffixes on verbs, which I find particularly interesting because it’s not as if they don’t have gender and honorific status and animacy agreement options, but this dialect decides to go applying person agreement extra places too.
The Ishiam dialect really seems to go the extra mile!
I’ve also uncovered essentially a new category of “light” verb, for a current ad hoc term, which basically loses 90% of the conjugations and ability to take arguments but hasn’t entirely lost verbal variation altogether quite yet (on its way though), e.g.
I am probably wrong, but would this be in any way similar to the verb “can” in English which has lost so much of its conjugations?
I was a bit alarmed to hear of these new demonstratives, but as long as they’re fun, all seems well!
So modal/auxiliary verbs are a bit different, I think. More like “let’s”, i.e. let us, doesn’t really have any productive variations. “To let” is a separate and non-eroded verb from “let’s,” which only works in basically one way.
I too am a bit alarmed at the fact that their pronouns feel like not nearly as closed of a class as I would expect.