Re: Itakian 'to have'(was Re: Varon)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 19, 2002, 21:33 |
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En réponse à nicole dobrowolski <fuzzybluemonkeys@...>:
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> interesting that Itakian lacks the verb 'to have'... other than 'to
> be with' is there another word, concept, or phrase that expresses
> possession..?
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I'm not sure, but I think that something meaning "possession" must exist in
Itakian.
But "to have" is not the only "missing" verb of Itakian. Itakian lacks "to be"
(it uses nominal sentences instead), "to go" and "to come" (it does have verbs
for the manner of moving, like "walk", "run", "swim", etc... though). If you
want to say "I go to the field", you simply say "I to the field", that's to say
a nominal sentence with a prepositional phrase.
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> *there is also a verb 'to have' meaning to have (to do something)...
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I still have to work on those things, but here again it seems that Itakian does
strange things (it seems for instance that things like "also", "again" are
verbs in Itakian - as well as quite a few other "adverbs" -
while "must", "can", "want", etc... are translated by noun phrases (like some
languages translate "I want" as "my heart") :))) ).
Anyway, Itakian is quite a monster :)) .
Christophe.
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