Re: A question about connecting sentences
From: | Charles <catty@...> |
Date: | Monday, September 27, 1999, 18:55 |
Larry Schelin wrote:
> The language, 'Bitha', for now is mostly agglutinative,
> with suffixes, infixes and prefixes, and a SVO word order. The thing I'm
> having trouble is with sticking two verbs in a sentence, like the
> english "I want to go home."
Lots of auxiliary verbs glued into the verb as affixes.
Good candidates are "want" "would" "will".
(me) home+allative travel+desire+present+...+...+1stperson
Or if it's more like a compound, why not root1+root2+affixes...
Then there's the serial-verb construction, or plain infinitive.
"I want him and his horde to go and jump off a tall cliff."
^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
> Anyway, any comments
> would be helpful I think... thanks...
Now you know better.