Re: Hey, some Aelya!

[Clinton Moreland-Stringham <morelanc@ucsu.colorado.edu>]

	hey guys! Got a question on which I could use your advice...

	Aelya has 9 cases (agentive, patientive, experiencer, allative,
ablative, locative. perlative, genitive, and instrumental). I'm having a
hell of a time assigning case characteristics, only age. (no marking) and
patientive (-(h)e) having been decided. Now, I want to follow Irish cases
somewhat, and Quenya somewhat too (-na, -se, -lo for lacation cases).
Anyone have any ideas of how things should be assigned? PLease feel free
to do whatever...

	another thing, too. There is a class of noun in Aelya that
involves some fairly big changes, the -y- class. In oblique cases, the y
drops from these nouns. What I'm not sure of is how to handle clusters
after the y drops, or what to do with markings that create clusters. Some
examples:

	dawyn 'spider' > pl. dauna (dawyn-a>dawn-a>dauna)
	tobyr 'well' > pl. tobra
	bradyn 'salmon' > pl. bradna /brann@/
          pat. bradne/pl. bradne or bradnen
	  all. bradnan?/pl. bradnannar?

	Any ideas you have would be great!

	Clinton