Re: ideas and questions
| From: | Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 5, 2004, 12:54 |
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Strange, Google knows nothing about brevitive, nor
brevitif, and yet I'm almost certain I've already seen
that word somewhere. Its meaning looks rather clear,
it should be the opposite of a 'durative', and might
probably be considered as some sort of aspect,
expressing the fact that is action is considered as
very short.
Moods and aspects (and tenses) are indeed mixed in
natlangs. So the question could be: shall we keep them
mixed, or should be try to define semantic aspects,
semantic moods and semantic tenses (to avoid
confusion, I would call such concepts: sem-aspects,
sem-moods, sem-tenses, which could be written using
the $ sign for ex: $moods, $aspects and $tenses. And
let's not forget about modalities, and $modalities).
Must be an awful thing for a linguist to get eight
teeth pulled out, and mouth frozen. You had probably
terrible sins on your conscience. Looks like Dante's
Inferno: The Castigating of the Linguists. Anyway, I
think one could very well do without labials nor
dentals, provided some other consonants would be left
over. If not, there still will be the Language of the
Deaf-Mutes.
--- Etak <tarnagona@...> wrote:
> Hello!
> I have a few things I want to ask. First off,
> does
> anyone know what the brevitive is? Is it a noun
> case,
> or does it have something to do with verbs? Or is
> it
> something else entirely? Does it have something to
> do
> with abbreviations, maybe?
> Secondly, can someone give some ideas about how I
> might form the imperfect in my conlang? Currently,
> moods, like imperative, subjunctive, and indicative,
> and tenses are shown using prefixes, and person and
> number are shown with suffixes. But, I'm not sure
> how
> to show aspects, like the imperfect. Actually, I
> think part of my problem is that I am getting mood
> and
> aspect mixed up. Could someone please explain them?
> Thirdly, I was struck by an interesting idea
> while
> I was in the hospital having eight teeth pulled.
> When
> my mouth was still almost completely frozen, I
> noticed
> that I couldn't pronounce any labials, or most
> dentals. I was wondering if it was possible to make
> a
> conlang which would still sound good even though it
> was lacking these sounds. Any thoughts and ideas
> are
> welcome.
> ---Etak
>
>
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Philippe Caquant
"Le langage est source de malentendus."
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
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