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Re: Tenses, moods, aspects!

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Sunday, August 13, 2000, 23:43
--- 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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/