Re: Verbal nouns

In ea-luna, the part of speech is determined by the position in a
sentence. The first thing in a sentence is any tense or aspect markers
that are applied to the verb. Then there is the verb, followed by
anything that modifies the verb (adverbs and/or prepositional phrases,
usually). Then there is the subject, followed by anything that modifies
it (adjectives and/or prepositional phrases) and the objects, indirect
and direct in that order. Sometimes the indirect object is marked for
clarity, and that mark comes immediately before it. Of course, each
object is followed by anything that modifies it. [That's the basic
sentence structure.]

This means that a word like "ede" ("squirrel") can be a verb, a noun, an
adverb or an  adjective. In the verb position, it can mean "to be a
squirrel" or "to be squirrel-like" (which might be an idiom... I love
squirrels... I'll have to think of a positive association for
that...please forgive me thinking in print).

In the case of "The vomit is on my shoe", the noun "vomit" looks just
like the verb, "to vomit" (being that they are the same word and all).

Mia

Jonathan Chang wrote:
>
> In a message dated 2000:10:02 8:56:46 PM, hsteoh@QUICKFUR.YI.ORG writes:
>
> >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".
>
>     intriguing (as usual). Would it be rather neat to create a free order,
> isolating language with such a system? I think that would be rather
> "playful". :)
>
>     czHANg
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M.S. Soderquist