Re: A Conlang, created by the group?

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
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