Re: Warngalyang Infinitives

>
> My anglocentric intuition would use I for 'to read' and II for 'to learn' in
> that construction.
>
> That is, if I get the sense of I and II--in English one might use an -ing
> form for 'infinitive I', but the 'to ' form for 'infinitive II'.
>
> [Running(I) in a race is fun - I went to the store to buy(II) a book - You
> should go to learn(II) reading(I)]
>
> I could be wrong.  How's that sound?
Interesting...

I just thought of another possibility: avoiding the second infinitive
altogether by using the deverbal noun:

you should go to learn [the] reading.

in which naturally /reading/ would be in the accusative. Hm, I think I
like this...

On an aside: I've gone and derived as many words as I could for 6 basic
words using the derivational affixes of Warngalyang which I presented
earlier, and am getting a few obnoxiously long words...I guess it's a good
thing I have Hungarian as L1 - where we do the same thing!

A qeleya bangillalyalanguwowatwaq amyamwanguwowa.

the language-GEN expanding (adj) development.

The expanding development of the language.

/bangillalyalanguwowatwaq/ "expanding (adj) is derived from the
absolute-base adjective /bang/ "big"

/amyamwanguwowa/ "development (process)" is derived from the verb /a-/ "to
be"

For any of you who want to decipher the derivational path from the base to
the result by looking at the list of derivational affixes, there are a few
which I discovered recently which you will need to know:

ADJ>N -iya: /baN/ "big" ~ /baNiya/ "size"

V>V causative: -myamwa-
        /ak/ "to be" ~ /amyamwak/ "to create"

Deriving words like this is a great exercise in mental acrobatics and
creative thinking..."hm, cause to be is create, then cause to be
continuously...can that be anything?"

-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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