Re: A Language built around a novel grammar

li [Eric Christopherson] mi tulis la

> On Nov 11, 2006, at 6:09 PM, li_sasxsek@NUTTER.NET wrote:
>
> > li [Weld Carter, Jr.] mi tulis la
> >
> >> Has anyone here done or seen work on a language relying on
> a grammar
> >> that does not require the noun/verb distinction? Though this may
> >> sound preposterous, ...
> > In Sasxsek, verb and nouns have identical forms.  The lack of
> > distinction is intentionally there to blur the lines
> between noun and
> > verb.  This made it possible to link verbs just as if they were
> > objects
> > of the preceding verb.
>
> Could you give us an example of linking verbs like objects? I looked
> a little at your web site but didn't quite find that phenomenon.
You can link verbs by simply using than as objects.  I'll start with
something simple.

	mo hedon run.
	I enjoy run.

Which could be translated two ways in English.

	I like running. 	(gerund)
	I like to run.	(infinitive verb)

In Sasxsek "run" is really an object of "hedon".  Whether you call it a
verb or noun is not relevant because they have the same form in Sasxsek.
Longer chains can be made like.

	mo hedon bev biras.
	I enjoy drink beer.
	I like to drink beer / I like drinking beer.

In this case "bev" (drinking) is the object of "hedon" and "biras"
(beer) is the object of "bev".   These can be strung into longer forms.

	dozi jun mo fin bev biras ju mo.
	kindly allow I finish drink beer of me.
	Please let me finish drinking my beer.

Here "mo" is the object of "jun" (allow), but also the subject of "fin"
finish, which has the object "bev", which has the object "biras".

What is comes down to in Sasxsek is that roots all have a verbal nature.
I will someday be making more technical definitions for the roots to
reflect that fact.  Something like the definitions used in Lojban.

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