Re: A question about connecting sentences

Larry Schelin wrote:

>1. Make 'want' a suffix/prefix.
>   Hmm... I thought of that for a while, but then where do I stop making
>suffixes
>and start making verbs? :)
Well, I stopped when I'd made up suffixes for the most common modal meanings,
and a handful of others.  The complete inventory of modal/aspectual suffixes
(as I call them) is:

        -uh     "want to"
        -amp    "can, be able to"
        -ulhk   "must, have to, should"
        -oin    "begin to, start to, become"
        -ank    "try to"
        -ahm    "shall, intend to"

For example:

        malha      "read"
        malhuha    "want to read"
        malhampa           "can read"
        malhulhka          "must read, should read"
        malhoina           "start reading"
        malhanka           "try to read"
        malhahma           "shall read, intend to read"

All other kinds of embedding are handled by the system of dependent suffixes
I discussed in a recent post.

Matt.