Re: Looking for a term

>On 9/2/06, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:
> > * Scotto Hlad said on 2006-09-02 09:27:29 +0200
> > > I'm looking for a term to describe a particular form in an a priori
>language
> > > I'm creating.
> >
> > This very much looks like Basque, except the "auxiliary" follows the
> > meaning-carrying verb in Basque.
>
>And it reminded me of negation in Finnish, which IIRC uses an
>inflected-for-person auxiliary to indicate the negation followed by a
>not-inflected-for-person form of the meaning verb. (I'm not sure which
>of the two is inflected for tense or aspect.)
>
>Cheers,
>--
>Philip Newton
It's called "the negativ verb", so along that model, maybe yours would be
"the aspectual verb" - or "an", since I gather you're going to have more
than one?

-The actual verb in Finnish comes after the auxiliary in a participle form.
All TAM marking except imperativ are also on this participle; historically
there were more forms, but it's still been a crippled paradigm already in
Proto-Uralic...


--- Scotto Hlad wrote:
>The verb portion may not necessarily be a verb per say. Lets think in terms
>of an adjective like "blue." When combined with the aspectus (my proposed
>term) inflected for inchoative, the combination means "becomes blue, turns
>blue etc"
>
>Xyz blue = he turns blue
>Xyz cold = it is getting cold
>Yesterday xyz blue = yesterday he turned blue.
>
>Etc.
>
>Thoughts?
Interesting.

So when the "verb part" IS a verb, what form is it in? I don't think you
mentioned that. Is it just a generic quotation-form-infinitiv, or something
more specific?

John Vertical