Re: Itakian 'to have'(was Re: Varon)

--- froge sionk Chris Palmer...
> On 19 Jan, nicole dobrowolski wrote:
>
> > as for the adjective thing... there are some adjectives that only
> > exist as verbs in narethanaal e.g. 'to be wierd' (monki)... so
> > once the verb is made into the noun 'weirdness' (momonki) a
> > person or thing would have to possess weirdness... 'the weird
> > girl' becomes 'the girl possessing wierdness'...
>
> Does reduplication (monki -> momonki) generally turn adjectival
> verbs in narethanaal, or is this a special case?
in narethanaal reduplication turns adjectives, verbs (including
adjectival verbs), adpositions, and conjunctions into nouns... though
i'm still working out the details of when one would use a conjunction
in noun form ;)... and i was actually monkeying around with an idea
of  reduplicating nouns into nouns (or another form of noun) but it's
really confusing and probably won't work...

> Do you have a write-up of narethanaal I can look at?
well... i posted one to the list a month or two ago.. but i've
changed (and am in the process of changing) a bunch of things.. so i
don't know how accurate it would be now... so, sorry... but i am
without write-up at the moment...

...nicole

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