Re: A question about connecting sentences

FFlores wrote:
>
> > Larry Schelin wrote:
> >
> > >"... The thing I'm
> > >having trouble is with sticking two verbs in a sentence, like the
> > >english "I want to go home." Here's the ideas I've had so far...
>
> Summarizing, the alternatives are:
>
> "I-want to-go" (infinitive as noun, direct object)
> "I go+desire" (affix to show desire)
> and combinations.
>
> Why not "I want that I go"? Maybe with a subjunctive mood on "go"?
        Isn't that a typical Castillan Spanish way of making sentences? I was
taught that Spanish used subclauses much more than French or English and
that "I want to go" was more often "quiero que vaya" instead of "quiero
venir". But maybe I forgot things and I made a mistake.

> Or, to make things shorter, you could elide the tense markers and
> pronouns and make them non-compulsory when context is clear.
>
> --Pablo Flores
>   http://draseleq.conlang.org/pablo-david/
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