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Re: 80th lexicon entry

From:Stefan Koch <oneofthree@...>
Date:Monday, September 17, 2001, 16:41
The basic form for "and" in Rick Harrison's Vorlin is 'wa'. It can be used
to link all kinds of words (although adjectives and adverbs can be lined up
without using 'wa').

'wan' is another form and copies all modifiers from the first linked word to
the second.
For example:
roda kat wa ful = (a) red cat and (a) bird
roda kat wan ful = red cat and red bird

I played around a little bit and made the following additions for connecting
sentences:

For connecting sentences the sentence initial particle, which shows the type
of sentence and can normally be left out, must be present after the
connector. This would be normally 'ji' for statements.

ful gani waji kat rodi = the bird sings and the cat is red.

The n-forms copy all prepositional phrases to the next sentence.

I'm not sure whether I should include forms like "either...or" or
"if...then". How common are these to native languages?


Stefan