Re: adj.

>
> > Telek does not distinguish between adjectives and verbs in any
> > way.  Phrases like "a red car" would be literally translated as "a car
> > which is red" as a perfect parallel with "a car that crashed".
>
> Chevraqis doesn't either, which I stole from Korean/Japanese (well, I'm
> sure it shows up elsewhere but that's where I first saw it, as a
> listmember pointed out).  The color adjectives are irregular because I
> was getting tired of three-syllable words.  <rueful look>  But they
> conjugate as verbs.
Rixuli's lazy the same way.  A phrase like 'aruveha durama luyisivamaka', 'the
green trees began to fall', uses a verb 'dura', 'to be green', rather than an
adjective.  Since it's a verb, it can take any of the fun verbal affixes.  To
express something like, 'Unfortunately for me, the trees stopped being green and
began to collapse', one would say 'aruveha duramakaha reuluyisivamaka `o', which
uses the wonderfully useful antibenefactive prefix (which reduplicates a vowel),
and the cessative suffix '-kaha'.

For the curious, interlinears:
'aruve-ha    dura -ma  -kaha reV_ -lu{y_V_}siva         -ma  -ka     `o'
 tree -nomPl green-3pPl-cess antb-fall/collapse{past}-3pPl-incept and
Those Vs mark vowel duplication - the prefix takes the vowel to the right of it,
and the infix takes the one to the left, except in the case of /u/, when it takes
the other vowel instead.


> > It is possible to have no distinct adverbs at all.  For example, instead of
> > "quickly", you could have a phrase meaning "it [the action] was quick".  So
> > a sentence would be something like "I ran and it [the running] was
> > quick".  Or you could do something like "I ran being quick", much like
> > English "I went walking to the store".
> Grr.  I can't actually tell, since it's a different form each time and I
> don't have the formal grammar.
>
> Chevraqis treats adjectives and adverbs the same.  I got lazy.  <rueful look>
Ooh.. adverbs acting like adjectives.. I hadn't even thought of that.  I've been
using a derivational suffix.  I feel guilty. *fix fix*

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