Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Detail #66: A tiny noun morphology detail

In this sketch, a language with question particles (or affixes) and a vocative case, the combination of these two is parsed as 'are you X?'.

King-voc-question : are you the king?
John-voc-question: You are John, right?
Sick-voc-question: are you sick? 

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