Re: Ke'kh - degrees of volition

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