Re: Ideas for Beddel-shaedhem

 --- Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...> wrote: >
Hello!
> Yeah, yeah, yeah, I should be working more on
> Káyasánoda so I can get the site up.  But an idea
> struck me out of nowhere yesterday that would work
> great for Beddel-shaedhem (a lang that looks like OE
> or Icelandic without necessarily borrowing much from
> them).  I had long thought of the use of auxiliary
> verbs, and how in this lang they would have much
> more
> the feel of a clitic, ie no meaning independent of
> the
> verbal phrase, unlike auxiliaries in English.  Then
> yesterday in a conversation I had, I came up with a
> rather striking reliationship between "to do", "to
> be", and "to have".  I thought of them as having
> active, passive, and middle voices, respectively.
> So
> I thought that in B-sh, there would be one verb for
> all three, just conjugated differently.  Then, to
> serve their functions in a verb, they would become
> the
> *endings* of the verbs.
>
> Let me make up some nonce examples to illustrate.
> (I'll keep them as close to English as possible
> while
> still fulfilling B-sh phonological requirements.
>
> Let's say this superverb is, gaen /g{n/
> 1st PERS SING:
> Active: gae /g{/
> Middle: gay /gai/
> Passive: gey /gei/
>
> Ey gae oen taensem.
> I do a dance.
>
> Ey gay oen taensem.
> I have a dance. (I know how to do a dance.)
>
> Ey gey oen taensem-beddel.
> I am a dancer. (I am a dance-person.)
>
> Gebben = "give" forms
>
> Ey gebae oen boccem.
> I give a book.
>
> Ey gebay oen boccem.
> I have a book [which may be given in the future.]
>
> Ey gebey oen boccem.
> I received a book.  I was given a book.
>
> How does this look to everyone?  Is it clear enough?
> Thanks!
> Clint
>
looks lovely. but how about getting rid of voiced
stops, like icelandic and scots gaelic. so g=[k] and
k=[k_h]. if you then use regressive assimilation to
devoice continuants in contact with aspirated stops
(as icelandic does ) you get the most gorgeous
phonology ( the word |ekkert| being rendered
["Ehk_hEr_0t] )

then again you only wanted it to look like the
language, not sound like as well

bn

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