Re: Phenomena
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 4, 2000, 1:40 |
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* nicole perrin (nicole.eap@snet.net) [000302 23:48]:
> Barry Garcia wrote:
> >
> > I dont know a better term for this, but how do you all say things like
> > "it's raining" or "it's dripping" without an actual specified agent to do
> > that action?
> >
>
> My conlangs tend to say something to the effect of:
>
> "Rain is."
> or
> "Rain exists."
> of even just
> "Rain." where in the last sentence, rain is a verb form, maybe
> considered an infinitive.
Ditto for târuven, k'all "rain.is" as a noun, yk'all "there's raining,
it rains" as a verb... hmm k'all must be a stative then, "to be raining"?
*fixes lexicon*
t.