Re: Requesting some challenging sentences

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:35:20 -0700, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:

>--- Jonathan Knibb <j_knibb@...> wrote:
>> (1) You give the example "I am running." for
>> handling progressive aspect,
>> which involves a lexical change in the copula and a
>> shift of the 'verb' to A
>> position. How do you handle this when the verb is
>> transitive -- for example,
>> "I am eating an apple."?
>
>It seems I have two choices; either alter the grammar
>to allow a greater variety of structures, or embed
>more information in each word by inflecting them. For
>example, using a prefix on O-words to flag their
>tense, voice and aspect:
>
>Ku vilero emporu. I run-to (the) market.
>Ku pavilero emporu. I ran-to (the) market.
>Ku bevilero emporu. I am-running-to (the) market.
>
>That's works nicely, but kinda messes up my original
>intention of having no inflections of any kind.
How about just using <ite> in the S position, which you seem to be fond of
anyway?  So "I am eating an apple" would be

I is-in-state eating (it) affects/has-patient apple.

Alex