Re: How to minimize "words" (was "Re: isolating conlangs")
| From: | Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 23, 2007, 5:21 |
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On 23/02/07, Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...> wrote:
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> As the language is inspired by Turkish/Finnish/Uralic (though hopefully it
> does not take *too* much inspiration from them), nouns take predicative
> suffixes to turn them into verbs ("he/she/it is a Vn", etc.), and there is a
> negative verb ("Does he speak Vn? - He nots. [=He does not]"), which also
> does the work of "am/is/are not" in "I am/{we,you,they} are/{he,she,it} is
> not/there {is,are} not"-type sentences.
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There is also a "pro-verb" (which can be used like a verb in the same way as
a pronoun in English, i.e. to repeat something which has gone before.
English uses "do" in this way but English "do" differs from Vn "aatua" in
that "do" also has other, non pro-verbal uses, such as in "do your homework"
"he did him in".