L E P/Miscellaneous function words

Lexical Expansion Project

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self, one's own (B)

"He ate his (someone else's) yerik" vs. "He ate his (own) yerik."

[1] Models are European reflexive pronouns and African logophoric pronouns; looser association w Algonquian "4th person". Perhaps self-GEN vs. lapeyä ?

informative particle (*fay') (B)

"Hey, this is *fay' good!" (informing another that they should try it, vs. eliciting agreement when both are already eating it, which would perhaps be "ko")

"There is *fay' still yerik flesh in the storage!" (informing the guy, who seems to think that he already has to hunt another yerik)

like Bavarian "fei" = /fay/ or Japanese "yo". These particles are used in the sense of "it seems to me that you don't know about it, but I think you really should - so I tell you that..." [2] In Japanese the "yo" is a sentence ending particle. Other emotive/discourse particles (spoken punctuation) might also be useful, such as a particle used for "thinking aloud" or parenthetical comments (spoken parentheses) which one does not expect to be answered.

'part of a whole' affix ()

could be used to expand vocab: rain-drop, fire-spark, sand-grain, flower-petal, spine-vertebra, food-crumb, tree - piece of wood, land-island, to sing - a note, to sew - a stitch, to cry - a tear (or maybe a sob), wind-gust, to teach or to know - a datum, rope-fiber, to drink - a sip, to eat - a bite, to walk - a step, to run - a leap (thus the vertical vs. horizontal distinction that s.o. wanted vs. 'jump'), to swim - a stroke, to fly - a wing beat, to explode or break - a shard, nose-nostril, year-season, queue-nerve, clan - a clanmember, Na'vi - one of the people. Cognate w diminutives? w hapxì? "Eywapxì" = "a living being"? Or could 'u be used for some of these, esp. from verbs?

particle to answer back someone (*torr) (B)

A: We won't fight in this war. - B: *Torr! (= Your statement is wrong. We will!)

A: I suppose you wasn't able to hunt a yerik. - B: *Torr, it's already in the storage. (= Your statement is wrong.)

Modelled according to German "doch". Can be used only after negative sentences to express disapproval, that means: to contradict the negative sense and therefore stress out the (positive) contrary. [3]