Re: Participles in Natlangs and in Conlangs
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 20, 2006, 16:49 |
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On 6/20/06, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:
> On 6/19/06, Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...> wrote:
> > I don't think English has future participles; if I'm wrong could someone
> > let me know? But we could speak of "the losing war" ("losing" is a present participle),
> > meaning one we are losing right now, or of "the lost war" ("lost" is a past participle),
> > meaning one we lost in the past.
> > (7)
> > Could a language have an inflection (which I'll write as "-7" due to lack
> > of creativity) that, added to a verb "V", would yield an adjective "V-7" so
> > that "N is V-7" would mean "N ought to V pretty soon."?
Well, sure, in principle. That's just the active counterpart of -6.
Can't think of any examples where a language does that offhand,
though.
Jim: how do you pronounce "gzb"? [gz=b] ?
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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