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Re: A Conlang by the group: genders

From:Mathias M. Lassailly <lassailly@...>
Date:Sunday, October 11, 1998, 9:31
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 ----- See the original message at http://www.egroups.com/list/conlang/?start=17109 -- Free e-mail group hosting at http://www.eGroups.com/