Re: HELP: a few questions

On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:41:55AM -0700, Jim Grossmann wrote:
> I'm with the others who say that conlangs don't have to have indirect
> disourse if the conlanger doesn't want it.
>
> H.S. Teoh could create a construction that signifies that the direct quote
> is, for example, an inexact quote or a summary of a quote, by using
> particles other than "ti...timi."
>
> Alternatively, inexact quotation, or summary of a quotation, etc. could be
> indicated by idiomatically.
[snip]

Now that I think of it, I think I can just get away with using a
subjunctive particle:

jina       tww'ma   jub0'     t3,   0so'  `ybu      cuga're.  t3m3.
<pos.subj> speak    she       -     <opt> I         eat       -
-          <v,perf> <fem,org> <cvy> -     <fem,rcp> <v,incep> <cvy>
"Probably, she said, `I want to eat'." I.e., "I think she said, `I want to
eat'."

_jina_ is the positive subjunctive particle, which marks a sentence as
hypothetical but likely to be true.

And of course, _0so'_ is the strong optative particle, which marks a
request or an opinion (the former, in this example). Literally, since
_cuga're_ is in the inceptive aspect, it reads "I want to start eating".


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