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

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Friday, January 25, 2002, 13:41
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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John Cowan <cowan@...>
Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>