Re: Question: Verb Paradigms
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 22, 2001, 21:31 |
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David Peterson wrote:
> Has anyone every invented a language that has internal vowel change for
> any type of tense/aspect marking on the verb?
Well, one conlang I had used an auxiliary verb to show inflections. The
auxiliary went at the beginning of the sentence, and the rest of the
sentence was free order. I can't remember much about the inflections,
except that there was a vowel change in the auxiliary to show tense, I
think it was, and a vowel change in the verb itself to show voice. Or
maybe it was the other way around, at any rate, both the verb and the
auxiliary (which also inflected for person and number and aspect) had
vowel changes.
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