Re: Vjatjackwa (the result of all those sound changes!)

At 08:59 PM 12/14/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Yay, more opportunities to write about this!  (I drove 3 hours to go
>take a final exam this weekend, and it was cancelled due to snow.  Real
>Life getting in the way of conlanging.)
Ouch!  You poor thing.  That's a lot of driving in the snow for nothing.

> > >         . inanimate objects routinely incorporated into verbs
> >
> > All objects, or only "simple" objects?  For example, how would you deal
> > with "I bought the book that a friend of mine told me about the other
> > day when we were goofing off when we should've been studying"?  :-)
> > Perhaps "I book-bought the one that ..."?
>
>I understand that the usually-done thing is to incorporate only simple
>objects, so that was the way I was going to do.  The actual details of
>constructing complex sentences had not been worked out yet :)  But I also
>had a brainflash when I realized that applicatives are a valence-*increasing*
>operation, and object-incorporation is (can be) a valence-*decreasing*
>operation...  which leads to the solution below...
[brilliant and fascinating solution snipped]

In order that I may fully understand the solution that you came up with,
could you please explain applicatives to me?  Thanks.  (The other reason to
explain applicatives to me is simply so that I will understand what they
are.  This is obviously something essential that got left out of my
education. <sigh>  It's amazing how many essential things I have never
heard of before.)

BTW, I've been having fun reading your posts lately.  Lots of cool stuff.

Isidora

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