Re: Alien conlang idea

Staving Nokta Kanto:
>On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:20:25 +0100, Peter Bleackley
><Peter.Bleackley@...> wrote:
>
> >Suppose we then have the nouns slf (I), kns (dog), skl (bone), tld (child)
> >and the verbs e_a_ (have) _i__ (give) __uo (undergo) oa_e (receive), then
> >
> >eslaf otalde silf knuso tild skulo okanse
> >
> >I-have child-receive I-give dog-undergo child-give bone-undergo
>dog-receive
> >
> >means, "I give a dog to my child, who gives it a bone."
> >
> >Pete
>
>__uo 'Undergo' and oa_e 'receive' work like cases as far as I can tell.
>
>Is there an example where a noun marked with 'uo' wouldn't make sense as
>the experiencer of the appropriate verb, or where 'oae' wouldn't make sense
>in the dative case? I could see 'give' as the agent/essive as well, though
>I wouldn't conclude that just from this example.
To a certain extent they do, but I don't imagine them being limited to
those roles. Let's see, if we suppose ltr (message) and __aa (be), we could
have

osalfe ltara

I-recieve message-be

There is a message which I recieve, or I recieve a message.

Pete