Re: Voices

Hi!

Steven Williams <feurieaux@...> writes:
> ago, is the applicative voice. Basically, it works
> like this:
>
> Active voice:
> "The cat [ACT] slept on the mat [OBL]."
Oh yes, I love this, too.  Qthen|gai has regular derivatives for
applicative for any of its adjunct cases (I don't know how many those
are, around 10 to 15). :-)  Together with antipassive voice and
nominalisers, it gets really interesting.  Qthen|gai uses this
very productively. :-)

>...
> with my insanely pro-drop conlang (the verbal adfix is
> almost _never_ added, so you get phrases like 'the cat
> slept the mat', and it's up to the hearer to decipher
> it properly, muhahahahahahaaa!).
HAHA! :-)

Tyl-Sjok, which is my insanely pro-drop conlang, drops the particles
that structure the sentence.  And because nouns are verbs are
syntactically the same, you must guess which one is the predicate.  Or
in relative clauses, which clause modifies which word.  There *are*
particles for doing this, but they are dropped a lot. :-)

**Henrik

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