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Re: Mentemente (was; Re: Negation?)

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Friday, July 9, 1999, 13:41
Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
> Hmm....in Rokbeigalmki adverbs are formed with the attachment of > _elikuh-_ to the beginning of the root. I don't think i originally cam=
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> up with it that way, but _elikuh-_ seems to be connected to the > construction _ilu+ka'_, "all+like". >=20 > ILU + KA' =3D >=20 > _ilu:ka_ - "so much; such a" >=20 > _i:luka:_ - "just like; the same as" >=20 > _elikuh-_ - (adverb) >=20 > So i guess the metaphor in Rokbeigalmki adverbs is "doing the action wi=
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> such _____likeness".
Do you have many vowel pattern changes like these? Anything to do with the Semitic method? I've tried langs with consonantal roots but I got severely confused. :( Anyway, Drasel=E9q uses an underlying suffix <-il> for a lot of adverbs (it can be realized as /il/, /yl/, /Yl/, depending on final vowels of the root), but I've recently taken a more analytic method for adverb formation where you simply use _rin_ ('with, having') + an abstract noun. It can also be adjectival. Sometimes you can use also 'to be' with it: _Rin gran ren_ with hunger man 'a hungry man' _Rin gran arsel ren_ with hunger being man *'a hungry-being man' _Rin gran arsel imalaq ren_ with hunger being eat.3sPST man 'the man ate hungrily', 'being hungry, the man ate' This shows some polysynthetic tendencies (_rin gran arsel_ being pronounced as one word /rin'gra,narsel/), since _rin_, like most prepositions, is a clitic in D. --Pablo Flores