Re: Update on me: Elliott (LONG)

En réponse à Elliott Lash <AL260@...>:

[snip the interesting grammar bits]

>
> TO Those of you who have read thus far, I applaud you. Please send along
> comments. :)
>
Wow! Interesting. Moten uses also mandatory auxiliaries for conjugation of
verbs (except the two auxiliaries atom: to be and agem: to have, verbs only
have infinitive and participle forms). What I'm wondering is why the indicative
is periphrastic while the subjunctive is synthetic? wouldn't it be more natural
to be the contrary? Or is the subjunctive particular in this language that it
takes synthetic endings?

Also, have you considered to make your present and past participles into
imperfect and perfect participles, that you could use with both tenses of
auxiliaries, thus with imperfect participle, you would make present and past
tenses, while with perfect participle you woulf make present perfect and past
perfect tenses. Just a thought of course.

Is the spelling regular? vowels seems to change pronunciation without real
rules, especially 'e' which seems to mark /e/, /i/ and /I/, or 'a' which seems
to mark both /a/ /e/ and /O/. and the ending 'al' pronounced /O/ and 'el'
pronounced /Iv/ in 'Jsel'? In a word, what's with the spelling?

Christophe.

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