Re: A language idea

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:40:12PM -0400, Isidora Zamora wrote:
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> Except that this language would appear to use "verb incorporation" rather
> that the "noun incorporation" usually seen in polysynthetic languages :-)
I had an interesting idea which I posted to the list once, but which I
haven't really worked on much.

You know how, in written prose, you often come across sentences like

        And Joe, running and jumping, ran past the cheering crowds."

The main sentence is essentially "Joe ran past the crowds", and the noun
"Joe" is augmented with "running and jumping", and the noun "crowds" is
augmented with "cheering".

So I had the idea of incorporating the verb into the nouns, so that you
have something like:
        run-jump-Joe past the cheer-crowds.

I don't know if this qualifies as verb-incorporation; perhaps it's more
accurately gerund-incorporation. I almost wanted to have Ebisedian do
this, but so far, I haven't. (I'm tempted to now that I think about it,
though. :-> )


T

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