Re: Two Questions for OurTongue

I don't see any difficulty.

The verbs would have to be essentially absolutive/infinitive though, though
that's not a major problem - in English we have an absolutive form, from
which we derive our infinitive.

Wesley Parish

On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 14:55, you wrote:
> Hey, I have two new questions.  Both deal with the formation of
> mediopassive verbs in OurTongue.
>
> 1. In Pre-OurTongue, I have a particle wa (or perhaps wâ), which comes from
> Proto-Language fha 'come/go around.'  The meaning becomes more
> like 'concerning' in Pre-OT, thus its association with pronouns like the
> following:
>
> Meî wa dapá.  'Concerning me, (a) hit.' > 'I am hit.'
>
> Does this seem realistic?
>
> 2. Later on in the development of OurTongue, I'd like to have a scheme for
> deriving mediopassives from actives, using a simple formant -u (from the
> above wa).  To do so, it appears that wa has to change from modifying the
> pronoun to modifying the verb.  Would such a change be realistic, let alone
> possible?  If there is a realistic way to do it, what is it?
>
> - Rob
--
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."