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

Hi!

Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> writes:
> > Hehe, just like my Fukhian.  Well, almost, as it has a copula for all
> > of these, but that copula can mean all of what you said.
>
> So Itakian is really basically the same, since it replaces copular sentences by
> nominal sentences :)) .
Haha!  Well actually, the copula in Fukhian can also be left out...
(Maybe I was too young at the time of planning to dare to throw it out
completely.)

> I like the idea, because it makes nominal sentences nearly half of
> the sentences of a normal utterance
>...
Hehe... :-)

I don't know how many cases you have in Itakian, but Fukhian has ten
(or so) and each one makes a different meaning.  The full list is
quiet lengthy:

Dative case: (left out) copula means `to give':
   man.NOM book.ACC woman.DAT.
   (The) man gives (the) book to (the) woman.

Accusative case: to have/own:
   man.NOM book.ACC.
   (The) man has (a) book.

Genitive case: to be possessed (undocumented feature!):
   book.NOM man.GEN.
   (The) book is owned by (the) man.

Predicative case: to be
   man.NOM doctor.PRED.
   (The) man is (a) doctor.

Locative case: to be located at
   man.NOM house.LOC.
   (The) man is at (the) house.

Illative case: to go to:
   man.NOM house.ILL.
   (The) man goes to (the) house.

Separative: to come from:
   man.NOM house.SEP.
   (The) man comes from (the) house.

> And when I think that all this began because I wanted the negation to be a
> preposition... :)))
Fukhian has a suffix for negation that can be attached to verbs and
nouns.  Further, verb endings can be attached to the first word in a
sentence if no other verb is present (ie., if the copula is left out),
so the whole thing gets a bit weird... :-)

**Henrik

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