Re: Too long words

At 19:29 18.2.2004, Carsten Becker wrote:
>     IMPORTANT NOTE: Verbs are always formed after the scheme
>     [<tense+stem(+mood)+person>+person's role]+trigger's role
>      ... the isolating bit of Ayeri. >>
>(www.beckerscarsten.de/conlang/ayeri/index.html#note)
>
>"Person's role" means the role of the pronoun ("person") in the sentence,
>e.g. Trigger, Agent, Patient or something else (Oblique)
>
>However, I'm ending up with constructions like (due to the lack of words
>only these variations on two examples):
>
>   A.  Mecoyain layayá:ngaris.       (A book is read by him.)
>   B.  Layaconiyäinang mecoyáris?    (Does he read a book?)
>   C.  Lirón laerasisaohälei.        (The soup is cooked,
>                                      lit: was made cooking)
>
>So I thought of creating a bit con-colloquialism for it:
>
><< COLLOQUIALISM
>    =============
>What somehow annoys me is the lenght of the verbs, compared to nouns - Ayeri
What you could do is to have null markers for some instances of
some of the categories.  E.g. IMC Sohlob the third person singular
agent ending is null, so that an objectless third person singular
verb is simply identical to the appropriate tense stem.

/BP 8^)
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