Re: THEORY: Deriving adjectives from nouns

On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:

> I remember that there was one word roughly meaning "Verimak!" that
> consisted only of affixes: a tense marker, an aspect marker and two
> negations (or one circumfixed negation). No root whatsoever, because
> that should have been the copula and the language was zero-copula.
At least I remember the word now: _emaroket_. I think it analyzes
like this:

e     ma  ro  ke  t
Neg-> Prf Prs Fut <-Neg

Neg-> <-Neg - circumfixed negation
Prf         - perfective aspect
Pst         - present tense
Fut         - future tense

that is, "not now or ever!"

   Irina

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