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Re: A Conlang, created by the group?

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 13, 1998, 6:44
At 11:27 12/10/98 -0300, you wrote:
>Christophe Grandsire wrote: >>>Don't you want antipatient as well to save verbs and cases like in
Japanese ?
>>> >>>mieru > miru > miseru > misaseru >>> >>>to appear > to see > to make it appear (= to show) > to make him see (to >>show something) >>> >>>What are the suggestions of Pablo, Herman & alia ? >> >> I was thinking of something like this for adjectives. As I already >>said, I like adjectives behaving like verbs. If we use a differentiation >>like perfect/imperfect, we could make: >> >>topic (or patient?)+ perfect-adjective: to be+adjective. >>topic (or patient?)+ imperfect-adjective: to become+adjective. >>agent+patient+ imperfect-adjective: to make someone become+adjective. >>agent+patient+ imperfect-adjective: to have made so become+adjective. > >I atrongly agree. > > >> I think it could easily be used for every style of verb (at least >>intransitive ones. By the way, shall we use transitive/intransitive >>differentiation? I think it can be changed). > >I think this could be distinguished by case. > >I-undergoer rise-predicate >"I rise" > >I-agent the-chair-patient raise-predicate >"I raise the chair" > >(here "rise" and "raise" would be the *same* root). > > >--Pablo Flores >
That's exactly what I was seeking. Thank you Pablo. That's why I wanted adjectives to behave like verbs. Now I think the conlang has taken another direction, but my proposal can still apply. Christophe Grandsire |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G. homepage: http://www.bde.espci.fr/homepage/Christophe.Grandsire/index.html