Re: Laranao modals, aspects, etc.

Barry Garcia wrote:
>
> daniel.andreasson@telia.com writes:
> >I know. I meant that I should perhaps have four 'moods'
> >like indicative, imperative, subjunctive and negative,
> >but come to think of it, that's kinda stupid when I have
> >all these modal particles. I might as well incorporate
> >the moods into them, mightn't I?
>
> Hmm I kind of like those modal particles to represent things like
> subjunctive. Maybe I should incorporate some into Saalangal :) (though I
> have a few moods covered already in the verbs.
FWIW, in one of my langs, which is as yet unnamed, I have the moods
indicative, imperative, subjunctive, negative, and modal.  Modal is used
(obviously) when there is also a modal present to modify the verb, and
modal is used on both modal and verb, created a double conjugation
thingy and lots of redundancy.  But I thought negative would also be a
really fun and maybe even unusual mood to have.  I like having unusual
ways of representing the negative, for example in Nevokányi the negative
is a regular verb (like in Finnish) which is conjugated and behaves like
all other verbs.

Nicole

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