Re: Tenses, moods, aspects!

--- BP Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:

> The lang [Funus] has C-C-C roots and v-v infixes.  The latter
indicate TMA [tense mood aspect].
> If the
> word has the form CvCCv it is a finite (or in native parlance
> "moving")
> form, and if it is CvCvC it is infinite/"resting" (nouns are
> participles!)
I really must be psychic.  Yesterday (Saturday afternoon my time) I was
thinking of adapting an Indo-European-based language to Semitic
inflections.  In other words, consonant-only skeletons of roots taken
from PIE, with vowels plugged in to express the sundry derivations of
Semitic.

Your language, I assume, is a priori...

DaW.

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