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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.