Re: Performative verbs (was: Re: here is some stuff i want all of ya'll to look at)

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> Ah... performatives...
>
> I find them so neat that I've decided that in Maggel verbs will always have
> two main forms, more fundamental than anything else (like the
> perfective-imperfective distinction is fundamental in Russian), and that's
> the performative-non-performative distinction. And to make things nicer,
> the performative forms will be easier to conjugate than the
> non-performative ones ;))) .
This surprises me; surely the performatives would be less common than the
non-preformatives, and thus, by the principle of maximizing the learner's
memory load, ought be the more complexly conjugated? Having the more common
forms more difficult seems way to sensible for Maggel.

Or do you intend to craft Maggelian pragmatics so that most verbs actually are
preformatives?

                                                       Andreas