Re: Looking for a term

* 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.
>
> I plan to use verb aspects only. What I'd like to do is use the verb plus an
> auxiliary word to create the verb in the appropriate aspect. This auxiliary
> word will be specific enough to include the pronoun associated with it.
>
> Here is an example
>
> xyz= 1st person singluar ingressive
>
> Xyw walk = I start to walk
> Xyx walk= you start to walk
> Xyz walk=he starts to walk.
>
> Is there a linguistic term for this auxilary word to indicate person and
> aspect? I have toyed with the idea of calling it the "aspectus"
This very much looks like Basque, except the "auxiliary" follows the
meaning-carrying verb in Basque. Basque uses the term "synthetic verb"
for the "auxiliary", since it is inflected. "Walk" would in Basque be
called a "periphrastic" verb.


t.

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