Re: EAK prepositions

Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> R A Brown writes:
>
>>Hi all those interested,
>>
>>The page on EAK prepositions is now up & running:
>>http://www.carolandray.plus.com/EAK/Prepositions.html
>
>
> Again, I like it very much.  Very nicely done! :-)
Thanks.

>>I have also been working on EAK verbs, but this has thrown up a few
>>problems. Those with any knowledge of the somewhat complex ancient
>>Greek verb system will, I'm sure, not be surprised. However, I hope
>>the first verb page will be on site within the next week.
>
> I think I faced similar problems in Terkunan, but had a lot of
> possibilities from Romance natlangs to choose analytical verb forms.
> Quite a few things have changed from Latin to modern Romance
> introducing analytical forms.
The Romance languages managed to introduce a whole lot more irregular
present tenses! I remember years ago I wrote a Prolog parser for Latin
verbs. I was fairly straightforward. I then started to adapt it for
French - but never finished it!

> (Simplification in Terkunan was much
> easier than planing the complex inflection paradigms of Þrjótrunn.)
>
> In some cases, I felt I should use agglutination instead of sticking
> entirely to isolation, e.g. the plural -z and the perfect participle
> -at, as well as in derivation.
>
> Have you decided whether totally regular agglutination would be
> acceptable?
Um - I see, agglutination as opposed to inflexion?

I am attempting to stick strictly to no _grammatical_ affixes, so I'm
not contemplating agglutination à la Esperanto or Volapük. Once
agglutination is accepted, things can get fiendishly complicated.
Volapük's verbal apparatus or all very regular and is entirely
agglutinative, but it ain't exactly easy.

> What about derivational affixes?
To derive abstract nouns from verbs etc.? Yes, it will probably do so.
But that's for the future  :)

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