Re: Question about a grammatical term

--- Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:

> You'd say "my very left hand"? Hmm, that sounds
> really odd to me. I can't
> figure out what it might mean.
It's just an intensive. It equals "my bloody left
hand".

> "Next" is a superlative in its etymology, but
> without knowing its history,
> there's no reason to think it might be a superlative
> in modern English.
Nevertheless. While I understand your point, most
people really understand very little about the
language they speak and correctly manipulate.

> You
> don't say things like *"the red one is nearer, but
> the blue one is the next of all".
Of course not. I'd say "the nearest one of all". ;)

Next is superlative of nigh!

> In any case, you can replace it with
> "following", which means the
> same thing as "next" in this context; you still
> wouldn't say "the more following day".
I wouldn't use "more" with participles in general.
*The more running water comes from a tap.

> In Tirelat, the sort of words like "next" and
> "left", which identify one of
> a number of similar objects, are adjectives, while
> the kinds of words that
> are descriptive adjectives in English (like "green")
> are stative verbs in
> Tirelat. So it's interesting that these two
> different sorts of adjectives
> actually have some grammatical differences even in
> English.
Yep! In Talarian, they're all verbo-nominal roots, so
it rather depends on what stem and ending sets you
use.

Thus, xlama- (green/grey/brown) can be xlamas "green"
the noun, xlamuça "green" the adjective, xlama "green"
the stative verb or xlamati "greens" the active verb.

Padraic.


=====
raps il tenós mathin la ngouerma;
     mays comez le nces il luchets le secund.

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