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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