Re: Basic vocabulary when starting a conlang

Quoting David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:

> In a message dated 08/31/02 6:23:46 AM, ask4it@GPUL.ORG writes:
>
>  There can be many different words for "to live", whether you mean
> to live at a place, in a place, be alive, to thrive, etc.  "To die"
> is pretty standard, but why not have the basic verb "to be dead",
> and the verb "to die" a derivation, "to become dead"?  I've never
> seen it, but there's no reason why it couldn't happen.
Indeed. IIRC, Lakhota is like this:  all verbs are atelic
unless modified to be otherwise.

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