Re: A small discovery...

Cristophe Grandsire crit:

>
>Wow!
Thanks! Amazing the way things like that pop out at you when
you least expect it.

>That's a really neat process of word creation and of semantic drift!
>And I
>think it's very naturalistic! I'm trying to find also such processes in
>"Roumant" (as well as fine semantic drifts), but it's not easy to think of any.
Well, VL made great use of compound verbs (prepos. + verb), as
opposed to simple verbs. You could make use of that. There's
scads of stem endings you could make use of on nouns. Talarian
has a number of such affixes (I can think of -m-, two or three
-n-'s, -aya-, -t-, etc.) that change the basic meaning of a root,
though in fairly unpredictable ways; as well as the old syllable
prefixing.

Semantic shift can be quite hard. I think you have to know a
lot about the culture of a language before this comes easy.

Padraic.

>Christophe.