Re: new parts of speech/cases

>From: Danny Wier <dawier@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: new parts of speech/cases
>Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:47:15 -0500
>
>From: "Jake X" <alwaysawake247@...>
>
> > This all reminds me of a thread I remember on some newsgroup about
>pronouns
> > vs. proverbs. And if there are words that stand for a previous verb.
>Anyway,
> > sorry I'm not really commenting on your categories, but I agree: parts
>of
> > speech are not cut and dried.
>
>In Tech, you can make many nouns into verbs and vice versa by moving the
>vowel -- nouns tend to have the vowel closer to the front and verbs toward
>the back (the vast majority of words are one- or two-syllable).
>
>I get the terms "preverb" and "proverb" confused, or are they the same
>thing? You also have "auxilliary verbs" which can go before or after a verb
>depending on the language and syntax.
>
No, proverb is not an actual term. It's just carrying on the tradition of
"pronoun" i.e. in place of a noun.
For example, the following sentence.

Mohammad Ali converted.

You can change "Mohammad Ali," to "he," and he stands in place of the
subject.

My friends and I were thinking about words that could have the same function
as a pronoun only with verbs. For example:

Mohammamed Ali converted, and others "did so."

In English, I cannot think ov a word that follows that function to clone a
previously mentioned verb. But it was theoretical.

Jake


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