Re: Ideas for deriving verbs from nouns

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:37:25PM +0200, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> I have an idea which may seem not very much like a trigger system, but would
> probably help you a little.
>
> My idea would be not to pass by the verb stage. Why not having a root
> meaning "give" in the broad sense.  From this root, you could derive a
> bunch of nouns, with no one being the core.
That is brilliant.  I love it.

It's sort of like deriving them all from the verb, only with no root verb.  I
wonder if I could make a case for root verbs which dropped out of use? :)

> Then, each of these nouns could be derived into a verb, with the
> particularity that each verb could take only one role as focus. For
> instance, in the sentences above,the verb derived from "giver" would be
> used only in the sentence (1) where the focus is the giver, the verb
> derived from "gift" in the sentence (3) where the focus is the gift. If
> this system was regular enough, it would even look like a normal
> conjugation of a verb of a trigger system! And even if it didn't, doesn't
> it look nice? :)
Definitely worth thinking about.  Thanks for showing me that I don't have
to choose a core noun :)

Amanda