Re: Verbal nouns
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 3, 2000, 4:02 |
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:27:42PM -0400, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
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> Chevraqis can treat verbs as nouns and nouns as verbs. In the first
> case, they decline like other nouns, and in the second case, you can
> conjugate them.
Cool. I'm working on a similar feature in my conlang...
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> This doesn't work or make much sense for every noun I have, but I'm
> working on metaphorical or poetic usages...eventually. :-)
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I'm working on making up a set of morphemes that can convert any (well,
almost any) verb/noun/relative to any other. You can verbalize a noun, or
nominalize a verb, or even verbalize a nominalized verb! Of course, each
morpheme will carry a slight nuance; so verbalizing a nominalized verb
will actually mean something more than the original verb itself. For
example, in English: "to play" nominalizes to "player" which verbalizes to
"to playerize" (i.e., to make into a person who plays). Bad example off
the top of my head, but you get the idea -- "to playerize" has acquired
more meaning than the original verb "to play".
T