----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan van Steenbergen" <ijzeren_jan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 6:55 AM
Subject: Re: Non-Human Features?
> --- Joseph Fatula skrzypszy:
>
> > ??
> > An affix for the quality of having been acted upon by X. For example:
> > breaker > brokenness. Found in Teuthurev.
>
> According to your example, that would be an affix added to the past
participle
> of a verb, thus creating a substantive with the meaning "the state of
having
> been ... (for example broken). Well, I don't know any language that does
not do
> that. In many cases it would sound strange, but always understandable.
Polish
> allows the speaker to more liberties than for example Dutch, by the way.
>
> Jan
>
It doesn't work like this in Teuthurev. There is a word, for example, that
means "breaker". Add this ending, and it means "brokenness".