Re: nouns-verbs

# 1 wrote:

> Someone has a conlang concept without "verb-noun" division????
Sylvia will certainly come and talk to you about Kélen, somebody will of
course mention All-Noun, and I can't help it but I'll talk about
Shaquelingua, my alien conlang.

Let's try to make it simple.

Shaquelingua has no verb. It uses instead what I call "the principle of
flux". The usual grammatical entities (Subject, Object, Verb, Indirect
Object) are replaced by semantical groups which are ruled by a declension
(Transmitter, Flux, Initiator, Receiver, Referential) and bound together in
a clause by a descriptor of flux (either a kind of adjective or a
postposition). The descriptor of flux determines the semantical groups (i.e.
the declensions) you must use to build your clause.

There are 3 main kinds of flux:

Acquisitive = The Initiator acquires a Flux coming from a Transmitter.

Equative = The Initiator equals a Flux.

Dotative = The Initiator gives a Flux to a Receiver.

Of course, "to acquire", "to be equal to" and "to give" are purely
metaphorical concepts; they'll be translated according to context. The
descriptor of flux also defines the type of the flux: object vs. quality and
immaterial vs. physical... and some other subtleties.

All things related to tense, mood, aspect are gathered in a special kind of
adjective so you can "conjugate" almost anything.

A few examples to make things clearer (I hope):

And to make the interlinear clearer:

TRS     Transmitter    (declension)
FLX     Flux           ( " )
INI     Initiator      ( " )
REC     Receiver       ( " )
EMO     Emotional      ( " )

IND     Indicative     (mode)
RTSPC   Retrospective  (tense)
FUT     Future         ( " )

DEF     Definite       (quantifying aspect)
INDEF   Indefinite     ( " )
QLT     Qualitative    ( " ) [Turns an object into quality]
UNQNT   Unquantitative ( " ) [Unquantifiable quantity]
PROPR   Proprietive    ( " ) [Inalienable possession]

POSTP   Postposition
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A bird is singing.

 From a shaquean point of view, you can put a sign equal in between "bird"
and "song". That's an equative flux.

je bjó tsapai ja teo'sarøk.
INDEF:FLX EQUATIVE song INDEF:INI IND:RTSPC=bird
= **one produced song (by) one currently bird.

Here the descriptor "bjó" says that "song" is a physical object undergoing a
process.
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This song is beautiful.

Another equative flux.

be vire kupëç tva teo'tsapai.
QLT:FLX EQUATIVE beauty RESUMPTIVE:DEF:INI IND:RTSPC=song
= **Possessed-quality "beauty" (by) this current song.

Here the descriptor "vir(e)" says that "beauty" is an immaterial possessed
quality, hence "beautiful".
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I will eat a fruit.

Definitively an acquisitive flux. I'm going to acquire something from the
fruit: food. And that's what I'm going to say in Shaquelingua.

jo kvelaë pjü, xe juvlo to'kja.
INDEF:TRS fruit ACQUISITIVE, UNQNT:FLX food IND:FUT=1SG
= **Taken-from a fruit, some food (by) future I.

Here the descriptor "pjü" means that "some food" is a physical object
removed from the Transmitter "a fruit". It can be shorten into:

je pjü kvelaë to'kja.
INDEF:FLX ACQUISITIVE fruit IND:FUT=1SG
= **An absorbed fruit (by) future I.

The descriptor now means that "the fruit" is a physical object integrated by
the Initiator "I", i.e. removed from an unspecified "outside" reality.
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My name is Kaluura. (There's no "m" in Shaquelingua, then no "Remi".)

Bad example because you need an idiomatic expression in Shaquelingua: I
define myself as Kaluura.

fëçi gør, be KaluurA kja.
RECIPROCAL:REC DOTATIVE.POSTP, QLT:FLX Kaluura (ATEMPORAL=)1SG
= **Myself into, the-quality "Kaluura" (by) (always) I

The descriptor "gør" just means that I add the immaterial quality "Kaluura"
to the inner list of qualities of the Receiver "myself".
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I hope that my explanations will give you many deep thoughts.  ;-)

kajø taëtli : rjë tul, klixe kuzórhgø tó-çulike kaja te'reëçka.

1SG.PROPR:EMO hope : 2SG:REC DOTATIVE.POSTP, LINEAR:UNQNT:FLX deep
IND:RTSPC.FUT=thought 1SG.PROPR:INI IND:PAST=explanation

= **My hope: toward thee, a-huge-quantity-of deep future thought (by) my
past explanations.

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Remi Villatel
maxilys_@_tele2.fr
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