Re: Re : Verbs in Mungayöd - feedback requested

On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Daniel Seriff wrote:

>"From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html" wrote:
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>> have you ever learned a polynesian lang ?
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>Not even once. ;)
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>But seriously folks, I was shooting for a kind of central/south american
>native feel to it.
In that case you may want to load things on the end of the verb.
Other CA/SA languages may vary. Quechua for example can add all sorts
of suffixes to verbs:

While [she] was making:
rura      cu             shpa           ca
vb root + continuative + already -ing + nominative

and also lighting fires:
[nina cuna ta ]  japichi     shpa   ca     pish
[noun pl   acc]  verb root + -ing + nom. + also

These are two examples taken from a story I had written in Quechua
class (actually a Spanish class, but there you are), so they aren't
perfect by any stretch, and I can't guarantee that I've broken them
down correctly.  But you get the idea. It was a myth called "Why do
people eat corn and potatoes?"

Padraic.

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>> mathias
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>Dan Seriff <microtonal@...>
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