Re: Question about Morpheme Orders in Verbs.

--- Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> wrote:

> Elliott írta: "I'm trying to figure out if there are
> many languages
> in which personal endings are not at the periphery
> of
> the verbal complex."
>
> Sure, my conlang Kosi does this; schematically, the
> order goes something
> like:
>
voice-mood-indirect.object-verb.root-subject-direct.object-aspect
> (though this might change a bit-- as I'm working on
> the lang continuously--
> but the basic verb.root-person-other.stuff idea
> won't change).
So, in Kosi the personal morphology surrounds the
verb. I guess it's more common than I thought,
although, Kosi isn't a natural language, so maybe I'll
have to hold out for natlangs.

I'm trying to figure out how such orders might have
arisen, since it seems like personal info is somehow
less connected with the verb than
tense/aspect/voice/mood info. But maybe this is wrong.



> And I'll do some asking around for info on natlangs;
> for starters, though,
> try Turkish, I *think* it does this (don't quote me
> on that however!). :)
My Turkish book so far has yielded examples of the
type V-T-P with the personal endings at the end, but,
there's a lot of verbal info to sift through for
Turkish, so mayhaps you are right for some
verbs/tenses.

~Elliott


		
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