Satelliteness

"David Peterson" <DigitalScream@...> wrote:
>    In English, the satellite-framed language, all you have to do is add a
>preposition: "I ran into the room", "I ran out of the room", "I ran away from
>the bad man".  The verb doesn't change.  The preposition acts almost as a
>satellite of the verb itself, since the basic verbal idea in these sentences
>is "running into", "running out of", "running away from".  They're all
>central to the verb phrase.
>    In Spanish, however, you can't say, for instance, "Yo camino en la casa"
>to mean "I walk into the house".  What a native Spanish speaker would take
>that to mean is "I walk (while I'm in the current state of being) in the
>house".  To convey the idea of entering a house, you have to change the verb
>to "entrar", meaning to enter.  This is why Spanish is called verb-framed,
>since to convey relational motion you have to switch the verb itself, you
>can't just add a preposition.
In Hadwan, there's a construct (which is late, and probably borrowed) where an
adposition (which for nouns is normally postpositional) gets prefixed to a verb
to modify its meaning that way (which will probably end up being mainly
metaphorical transfers, like our Latin words that do that).

[This is there because I would end up very lousy at inventing new verbs for all
those types of actions...]

So say [tentatively],
    /'BIru:/    'I carry'
    /xrU/       'over'
    /xrU'BIru:/ 'I carryover, transfer, etc.'

Or somesuch.  (When I say things like 'late' it seems I mean it probably won't
show up often in Hadwan translations proper but will appear to be rather common
in descendants... Hm...)


     *Muke!
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