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| Most of these are up in the air questions. Most individual cases both lay out the current problem and the path I think I may take on it. If someone can suggest or advise on these, it will be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, I will likely remove them once I have the time to go over what has been written so far. | | Most of these are up in the air questions. Most individual cases both lay out the current problem and the path I think I may take on it. If someone can suggest or advise on these, it will be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, I will likely remove them once I have the time to go over what has been written so far. |
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| ===Should the last consonant of nouns have to agree with the word afterwards?===
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| Final consonant agreement is stolen from Breton, which I thought was interesting. Right now, it serves to help emphasize gender. This would be particularly useful if each noun phase was treated as a single unit thus;
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| focw merygw ta ty.
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| The noun "fogw" agrees with the feminine subject ["me-"] by becoming unvoiced ["focw"]
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| However, the ending of merygw [sheep] which is masculine remains so, despite the next word starting with an unvoiced "t" [-gw remains -gw].
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| If harmony is maintained it should be;
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| focw mery'''cw''' ta ty.
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| This has a definite grammatical function but I'm uncertain if this destroys a harmony. It doesn't seem to serve any grammatical function necessarily in Breton, other than perhaps emphasizing some mutations while retaining the harmony. So I'm stuck between grammar rules and harmony here. Hard call.
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| ===Pronouns following prepositions conjugate the preceding term===
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| {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle; width:450px;"
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| ! width="30%"|Person
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| ! width="40%"|Fem
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| |1S
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| | -s
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| | -sh
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| |2S
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| |3S
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| | -ra
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| |3P
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| | -lhà
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| | -la
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| Example;
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| I [fem] gave it [masc] to you [masc].
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| [Proposed] Temelâr ty âd dàrh v. [Current] Temelâr ty âd dà rhà.
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| This obviously would only have use with prepositions ending with vowels.
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| This may be too openly derivative of Celtic languages but I'm hesistant to turn down possible means of laziness which seems like a pretty natural possible development. It may be dialectical.
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| I may insert an inanimate case "-g" based off of "ígal" since "ât/d" would be identical to 1st person. 3rd person for it might be acceptable as in the Celtic languages but seems odd to me as "ât/d" would usually be used instead for the noun.
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