Re: verb-noun-incorporation mania

> On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:41:14 -0500 "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
> writes:
> > In the process of getting ideas for revamping my conlang, I came up
> > with
> > this (probably totally insane) verbal/nominal incorporation
> > mechanism.
> > Basically, the idea is that verbs do not need to be standalone; they
> > can
> > stick themselves into the middle of a noun. And multiple nouns in
> > the same
> > sentence can have these attached verbs. For example:
>
> This is not unprecedented.  However, in every analysis I've ever seen,
> both of conlangs and natlangs, we call this noun-incorporation.  The verb
> is viewed as central and the noun is said to incorporate into the verb.
>
Gevey incorporates (places between stem and ending) verbs into nouns,
when the verb becomes descriptive - turns into an adjective. Thus:

   The broken chair
   freslushaabuu, yuu freslushaab
      from fresluu - chair, and shaablan - to break

   The bitten man
   loiftrhalhe, ye loiftrhal
      from loife - man, and trhalhan - to bite

   The dead dog
   tuusrhuzvejuu, yuu tuusrhuzvej
      from tuusrhe - dog, and zvejan - to die
      (though tuusrhuu is an acceptable alternative for dog carcass)

But then Gevey is a bit strange like that.

Rik

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