Re: My latest language: Yracnaji

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From: "daniel andreasson" <danielandreasson@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: My latest language: Yracnaji


> Joe Hill wrote:
>
> > Nehon    uuryjo              tanoni
> > kill.IND   3s.ERG.DEA   kill.PST.AO.RFL
>
> I'm a bit confused. What does this mean? Two verbs. One
> in indicative and one in both past tense and aorist.
> What's aorist in Yracnaji? Is that an aspect? And is
> _uuryjo_ a special pronoun for third persons who are evil
> or dead?
>
> Oh, I guess I'll just wait for the grammar.
>
Ok, I have time to give you the Grammar

Verbs:

There are two verbs in each sentence, which cannot function without each
other.  Ehon-tan are the verbs "to kill"  The first takes the mood, the
second takes the Tense, Aspect, and defines whether or not the verb is
reflexive.

The Mood is defined by a prefix

Indicative 'n-'
Subjunctive 'j-'
Negative 'k-'
Imperative '-m'

therefore 'Mehon uuryjo tanonip' means 'He must kill himself   ' or 'may he
kill himself'

Tense is defined by a suffix on the second verb

Past '-on'
Present '-in'
Future '-an'
Possible Future '-en'

Therefore, 'he might kill himself' is 'Jehon eryjo tanenip'

Aspect is defined by an following suffix on the second verb, verbs
agglutinate.

Aorist '-i'
Durative '-uu'
Stative '-o'

Reflexivity is indicated by adding the suffix '-p'

Nouns

Nouns have 14 cases and 7 Genders, which I will explore in my next bit.

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