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Re: Implied prepositions

From:Chris Peters <beta_leonis@...>
Date:Thursday, July 20, 2006, 0:10
>From: Gary Shannon > > >Perhaps the preopsition could become a prefix to the >verb: "ingo", "outgo", "upgo", "downgo". >
My on-again, off-again "Ricadh" project has something not totally dissimilar. I use noun-affixes to represent many prepositional meanings ... actually, these affixes function more like Japanese particles than English prepositions, but there is some ovelap. A single affix can actually represent opposite meanings depending on whether it's used as a prefix or suffix: "xevraca" would mean "inside of the box", while "vracaxe" would mean "outside of the box". I've put the project on hold, though -- I didn't much care for the agglutinative nature of Ricadh and wanted to go in a different direction. I may redefine my "Neo-Ricadh" as a descendant language of the one above, complete with sound shifts, irregularities and such. :Chris