Esperanto-like part-of-speech marking
From: | charles <catty@...> |
Date: | Sunday, November 8, 1998, 19:50 |
Is anybody else (besides T. and the Borg) doing
anything with this idea? Basically I'm trying this:
Words end in a vowel (or two) indicating the
syntactic part-of-speech sorta-like Esperanto.
The basic single-vowel endings are like so:
-O noun or pronoun, any object or thing
-A adjective, loose modifier of a noun
-E adverb, tight modifier of non-nouns
-I active verb, relation or act or event
-U passive verb, agent and patient reversed
I really like the basic, but I want to
extend this a bit ... something like:
-iO (noun) active agent
-uO (noun) passive patient
-iA (adjective) active participle
-uA (adjective) passive participle
-iE preposition, similar to Vorlin's -u
-uE passivized preposition
-iU reflexive verb, agent is the patient
-uI reciprocal verb, each is agent and patient
And maybe some more beyond that. Or change it.
The current state of this artlesslang is at
http://www.catty.com/~catty/lang/tomato.htm