Chleweyish modes
From: | Carlos Thompson <cthompso@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, March 16, 1999, 19:23 |
Doe to the characteristics of the languages I've decided that Chleweyish
will have no mode inflection but an aspect one, and mode will be given
by serial verbs:
The regular infleccion of the verbs will be then:
VERBi: infinitive
VERBe: normal(?) aspect
VERBen: perfect aspect (something that just happened)
VERBis: potential aspect (something about to happen)
Old Chleweyish
Doy a gar doyey a cemel =F9n ley tabun hame eb=FAn funwa bo quin on gul=
pe.
Doy a gar doyey a cemel =F9n laran djume lege hame odu cyamon
(I perfect believe-indicative I-thee perfect see-irrealis ...)
New Chleweyish
Doyey ceme garen =F9n ley tabun hame eb=FAn funwa bo quin on gulpe.
Doyey ceme garen =F9n laran djume lege hame odu cyamon
(I-thee see-normal believe-perfect ...)
The infinitive is used as a noun, as some English -ing forms. In serial
construccions, there is no fixed way over which verb the aspect falls.
--
Carlos Eugenio Thompson Pinz=F3n
ITEC-Telecom, Colombia
cthompso@alpha.telecom-co.net
http://alpha.telecom-co.net/~cthompso/
Di mi beh em je lok mi ju je kom lon vu am je