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Re: speaking and saying (was: Re: Forget it)

From:Matt Pearson <mpearson@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 25, 1999, 21:08
Sally Caves asked:

>What are the results of your course on language invention?
I posted some details of Nattiki, together with a few sample sentences, about a week ago. The only new things since then are: -- Negation will be marked with the particle "mi" before the verb: Ichaloowoni "I love you" Mi ichaloowoni "I don't love you" -- Yes/no questions will be marked with the particle "bawi": Nachaloola "You love me" Bawi nachaloola? "Do you love me?" Bawi mi nachaloola? "Don't you love me?" -- We also invented some conjunctions, a handful of quantifiers, and the numbers from one to ten. Unfortunately I don't have my dictionary handy, so I can't tell you what they are. The conjunctions I remember are: da "and" ep "but" zigaa "because" maki "when, as, while" bado "after" Tebobjeeta kuumajalaatem da putaakatem 3p-Prog-eat.lunch elephant-Nom and hamster-Nom "The elephants and hamsters are eating lunch" Ichaloowoni zigaa nadee boopa 1s-love-2s because 2s-be crazy "I love you because you're crazy" The only numbers I remember are: ed "one" zee "two" fuu "three" ... pup "six" ... gao "nine" sup "ten" Iokima fuuop dibutmudokop 1s-Pst-see three-Acc magician-Acc "I saw three magicians" This coming Friday we'll do reflexives/reciprocals, modal verbs, and maybe evidentials... Matt. ------------------------------------ Matt Pearson mpearson@ucla.edu UCLA Linguistics Department 405 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543 ------------------------------------