Re: A Conlang by the group: genders

De: Pablo Flores <fflores@...>
> Fecha: S=E1bado 10 de Octubre de 1998 10:29
> Asunto: Re: A Conlang, created by the group?
>
>
> >OK, I withdraw my proposal. I liked the ideas of Herman ("north, south,
> >east, west") or mine ("top, left, bottom, right"), or Carlos's
> >("red, green, blue"). Could also be "air, fire, earth, metal, wood", or
> >"heaven, earth" (sort of I-Ching :)
> >Anyone/thing else?
>
> I don't remember any red, green, blue proposal of me... or is there any
> other Carlos whose proposal I didn't see.
>
> >(I assume we have already decided to have gender and to mark it on
> >"nouns").
Ok. I suggest we don't get deeper in the 'all-noun-derived predicates' discussion.

I feel like you and I wish it could work like that.

I suggest we always try to coin a verb from a noun and check whether it makes
sense with the other possible parts of speech. If it's to vague, we use a
verb-root.

What do you think of that ? What's your viewpoint ?

Mathias


> >
> >--Pablo Flores
> >
>
> But I like it.
> No vote yet until we decide if gender means anything to verbs and what.
>
>
Ok. First make clear what 'gender' is :
Class system ?
Class systems sometime impinge on predicate-making : let me give a dummy example
from a very backwarded tribe (not our's ;-) :

eye

then class 'eye' as an organ :

eye-ORGAN

an organ has a function :

eye-ORGAN-PRED = to see/to be seen

eye-RESULT-PRED = to see/to be seen

beauty

beauty-THOUGHT

beauty-THOUGHT-PRED = to find it/be found beautiful

beauty-PERCEPTION-PRED = to find it/be found beautiful

(Of course hundreds of alternative meanings for each of these examples are available)

So I understand what you mean.

Mathias



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