Re: Verb-initial languages
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 15, 2003, 5:03 |
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 00:47:34 -0500, Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...>
wrote:
>Other things I suggested in the vanished post:
>- initial copula with particle between noun and predicate
>- null copula
>- denominaliser makes noun into initial "be" verb: bird-BE-3SG finch-ABS.
That reminds me, there's a suffix "-n" in the Lindiga vocabulary that's
defined "to be __". Originally I think this was for converting adjectives
to verbs (as in "to be red", "to be short", etc.) but I guess it could just
as well be used for nouns (especially since I'm using adjectives as verbs
now without any derivational suffixes being necessary). Something like
"lélindenu kichrsa".
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