Re: Dreamworld Re: Conlangea Dreaming

Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>

>Message: 2
>    Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 00:34:26 -0400
>    From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
>Subject:
>
>Herman Miller wrote:
> > >The Dreamworld _is_ an interesting place!
> >
> > Dri, se zhadivor zia tun se dizhi yut!
> >
> > dri         se   zhadi-vor   zia  tun    se   dizhi       yut
> > (agreement) SUBJ dream-realm very copula SUBJ interesting place
>
>Can't resist -
>
>Sál, klálva bú ukalvastá ubiitaní umaazianú
>Sál, klá-l -va  bú    u- kalvastá u- biitaní         u- maa- zianú
>Yes, be- it-hab place G6-dream    G6-inhabited.place G6-very-strange
>Pronunciation:
>' = high-pitched syllable
>` = falling (high-to-low) syllable
>. = syllable-boundary
>Low pitch is default
>[`sal 'kl_0al.vA `bu: kAlvAs`tAU bi:ta`niw mA:Za'nu]
>Lots of falling pitches, which are usually (or at least used to be) very
>rare, and quite a few places where vowels across morphemic boundaries
>merge into diphthongs or long vowels.  Hadn't thought of that
>consequence when I changed gender 6 to u-/uf-.
>
>I had no word for "interesting".  There are two words for "place",
>ubiitaní (inhabited place) and pibiú (uninhabited place).  There was a
>brief moment of indecision about which word to use, but I figured that
>the dreamworld would be best seen as an inhabited place, albeit
>inhabited by strange beings.  :-)
Early Lahabic:
Kineimon hibiso'nde gwa'lemma'dhibouondlei hala'ro'mma'dhibato'r
'ki.nej.mon ,i.bi.'so:n.de g<w>a:.,lem.ma:.,d<h>i.bow.'on.dlej
,ha.la:.,ro:m.ma:.,d<h>i.'ba.to:r
kine -eim  -o      -n -0   hibis -o'nde
have -IND- -IMPFV- 3  -sg  truth -ADV
gwa'len -ma'         -dhib -ouon        -lei
sleep-  -IN BEN AFF  -land -AUG CIR GEO -IN NOM SG
halaz -ro'n -ma'         -dhib -a          -to'r
think -CAUS -IN BEN AFF  -land -IN AG AFF  -IN ACC SG
Lit., the land for which sleeping is a bemefit has truly a thought-producing
land.
1. kineimon is in the imperfctive because dreamland is a continuing state
without an explicit goal.
2. hibiso'nde would normally be in preverbal position (if I understand
Greenberg correctly) but is here postverbal for emphasis.
3. the inanimate benefactive affix is attached to 'sleep' because the
sleeping is a benefit in the dreamland insofar as one must (normally) be
asleep to reach it.
4. there is no inanimate agentive (better term for this will be accepted,
since intrumental is already taken) between -ouon- and -lei
because all geographic suffixes carry the condition of inanimacy.
5. the inanimate benefactive affix is attach to ala'ro'n- because the
Islanders consider thinking to be beneficial.
6. Note that the sentence does _not_ mean that there is a section of the
dreamworld which is thought-provoking. That would be
menaimon hibiso'nde hala'ro'mma'dhibalei ho'l gwa'lemma'dhibouompa
There is truly a thought-causing land in dreamworld.
Classical Lahabic:
Kini'mon ibho'n gwa'lema'dhibu'ondli' ala'ro'ma'bbhato'r
'ki.ni:.mon ,i.b<h>i.'o:N g<w>a:.,le.ma:.,d<h>i.bu:.'on.dli:
,a.la:.,ro:.ma:b.'b<h>a.to:r
kine -i'm  -o      -n   -0   ibho'n
have -IND- -IMPFV  - 3  -sg  truly
gwa'lema'dhib  -u'on        -li:
sleepland      -AUG CIR GEO -IN NOM SG
ala'ro'ma'bbh -a          -to'r
interesting   -IN AG AFF  -IN ACC SG
Lit., the sleepland has truly an interest.

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