From: "Steven Williams" <feurieaux@...>
> Firstly, I have a really unique way to indicate
> relationships.
Be quite careful in making claims of uniqueness :-)
> For example, 'the cat ate the mouse'
> would be -
>
> "Mavs kat jenkui."
> mouse cat eat.(actor marker [ku]).(perfect marker [i])
>
> ('kat' and 'mavs' are not the real words, by the way
> :). Haven't started attacking the vocabulary yet.)
>
> The subject and the verb are treated as one
> inseperable item whose components may not be moved
> about - the verb itself is marked and the subject is
> left alone.
This appears to be a form of incorporation... subject-incorporation, really..
where the subject and object are treated as a single word. (Object
incorporation is more common, i.e. "Kat mavs-jenkui".)
I don't know whether English forms in -'s can be considered incorporated.
> All in all, a pretty weird way of expressing this sort
> of thing. This sounds a whole lot like a mangled
> trigger system - I tried to figure out how triggers
> work, but I'm so dense, that a teaspoonful of me
> weighs as much as a battleship, so I gave up.
I also tried and failed to figure out trigger systems.. the unfortunate
offspring of that is Dunamy :)
*Muke!
(who really needs to work on the dunamy page...)
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