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Re: Ke'kh - degrees of volition

From:daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 20, 2000, 14:55
hue4sheng1 wrote:

> Oooooh!! So *that's* what degrees of volition means! :-) > I'm having a hard time figuring out a good word to describe my > incidental/deliberative/consequential. I currently call it "focus", but > that doesn't sound very appropriate. Is "degrees of volition" an > "official" term for this concept? Or at least, a widely-understood term? > I'd like to adopt it if so.
Afaik, "volition" is an official term. The 'consequential' sounds like some kind of causative to me. But having a 'consequential' in a three- way volitional distinction is much cooler imho. :)
> Well, I was seeing these huge threads about degrees of volition in active > languages not long ago, but I had no idea what it was referring to! Little > did I know that I already have the same concept in my own conlang :-)
Usually - or at least in the active natlangs that I'm familiar with - there is only a two-way distinction between volitional and non-volitional, by using two different cases or verbal agreement (or similar). Kinda boring. Luckily, they can do much cooler things than just distinguish between vol and non-vol with those two cases. :) Daniel