Re: Classification and 'to be'

On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 15:02:59 -0300 Pablo Flores
<fflores@...> writes:
>Draseleq has four ways of expressing what in English should be "to
>be".
>
>First, "to be" is never used with adjectives, because they are verbs:
>
>  rronten "to be big"
>
>  rronet, rroner, rron   "I'm big, you're big, it's big" (etc.)
>
>Then, there are three different verbs for common functions of "to be":
>
>  arten      "to be (located at), to stay"
>  thu"asten  "to be, to exist"
>  qesten     "to be, to be of class X"
>
>_thu"asten_ is used for general existence, like "there is" in English.
>_qesten_  puts together two noun phrases, like "I am a person"
>          or "My house is this one".
>
>
>--Pablo Flores
><http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/1021/draseleq.html>
Rokbeigalmki also somewhat follows this pattern, with a slight
difference.

_wa'tezat_ /t E z a t/ = "to be", the normal and usual "i am a person",
etc.
_wa'tzat_ /ts a t/ = "to exist"
_wa'netz_ /n E ts/ = "to be at a place"

However, adjective-verbs aren't used to mean "to be tall", etc.,
(although that's how they were used in Ancient Rokb.), they're used to
mean "to *become* tall" etc.

Ancient Rokb.:
_wa'goiyat_ /g Oj j a t/ = "to be tall"
_wa'adetz sudgoiyat_ /a d E ts  s u d .../ = "to become tall"
(wa'adetz = to become)

Rokb.:
_wa'goiyat_ /g Oj j a t/ = "to become tall"
_wa'tezat sudgoiyat_ = "to be tall"


-Stephen (Steg)

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