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Re: Re : Using numberless substantives

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Date:Sunday, June 20, 1999, 20:28
Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 20/06/99 21:01:04  , Paul a =E9crit :

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or rather something like:

kuta
kuukuta
kutakuta
kukuta
kakuta
kukakuta
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it is rather a reduplication like :

kuta
kukuta
kutakuta
kikuta
kakuta
kikakuta
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but "kuta" means "fatigue" so it wouldn't make sense anyway ;-)

you also have :
niti : day
neniti : night
noniti : night and day
niniti : a night or a day
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No value judgement implied, just curiosity.
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do you hint it's darn stupid, you loony euroxcentric ? ;-)

et Charles a =E9crit :

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> Don't forget that "cats have clawses", multiple sets of multiples. > =20
very true. actually i use "mimiki" to say "one house of a village".
> My own feeling is that IE grammaticalized number is best replaced > by numeric adjectives/determiners such as "four" "none" "many"; > they are needed anyway, more general, and simplify grammar. > The same roots can then be used to modify verbs or other things, > or simply left out when not needed. > =20 > This applies more to loglangs/auxlangs, of course. > I feel the same about grammaticalized tense/aspect ... > =20
well, i think you need sometime to attach some of them to meanings "hidden=20 inside" the words. for instance, if you want to derive "to learn" as the=20 temptative/inceptive of "to know", or reversely, then you must take into=20 account that "to start knowing" is different from "to learn", and "to have=20 learned" is different from "to know". of course, if you have plain different=20 words for each then these lines are needless.
> And for gender, I'd want either none (just use "fem" and "mal/mach" > and maybe "bis"? as optional modifiers) or many more, > an expanded gender/class system ala Bantu/Swahili or Ro. > =20
gender ? what for ? aren't compound female/male words enough ? goat female,=20 brethren male, etc.