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2007-Aug-31, Friday 08:33* I missed my therapy session yesterday. I was running late because of my cold and the therapist couldn't stay late.
* I'm adding a consonant phoneme /y/ to Bicons; it'll dissimilate to [w] before /i/ and will be [j] otherwise. This makes 18 consonants. I may post the whole phonology at a later date.
I've also eliminated the obviative marker and the obviative pronoun forms. If the verb has two 3rd person arguments but only one phrase appears, the phrase is treated as the 2nd argument.
Djanigh l-o-kht-u-w. - "He/she heard John."
John 3/3-S.Dir-hear-Ind-S
The 1st possessive, with suffixes directly on the noun, seems to be replacing the 2nd possessive (which uses the inverse participle of /z/ "have") in most instances. However the latter will still be used when there are two types of possession semantically.
tcokhle i-dz-u-l malde-kh - "your mother's chocolate"
chocolate Inv-have-Ind-3S mother-2S
Is an example of both kinds. Although the following is more likely:
tcokhle-l malde-kh
* I haven't been getting much else done.
* I'm adding a consonant phoneme /y/ to Bicons; it'll dissimilate to [w] before /i/ and will be [j] otherwise. This makes 18 consonants. I may post the whole phonology at a later date.
I've also eliminated the obviative marker and the obviative pronoun forms. If the verb has two 3rd person arguments but only one phrase appears, the phrase is treated as the 2nd argument.
Djanigh l-o-kht-u-w. - "He/she heard John."
John 3/3-S.Dir-hear-Ind-S
The 1st possessive, with suffixes directly on the noun, seems to be replacing the 2nd possessive (which uses the inverse participle of /z/ "have") in most instances. However the latter will still be used when there are two types of possession semantically.
tcokhle i-dz-u-l malde-kh - "your mother's chocolate"
chocolate Inv-have-Ind-3S mother-2S
Is an example of both kinds. Although the following is more likely:
tcokhle-l malde-kh
* I haven't been getting much else done.