Re: Verbal distinctions

Andreas, what does your language do when the subject of to live and the
person who wants it to happen aren't the same? eg "I want him to
live"... In this case your adverb the way you use it below wouldn't
work... I'm just curious is the way that is said involves the same
adverb or if a completely different construction has to be used. And for
that matter, what if the tenses are different? How do you handle
sentences like "I want/wish that he had lived"?

>On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 02:12:33PM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
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>>Quoting vaksje <vaksje@...>:
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>>If I'm reading this arightly, what you suggest is at least on the surface very
>>similar to what happens in (my conlang) Tairezazh. You'd get _ta ken_ "I live"
>>and _ta ken zent_ "I want to live". _Ken_ is still the finite verb - putting
>>this in the past tense yields _ta kenk_ "I lived" and _ta kenk zent_ "I wanted
>>to live".
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>This is indeed what I meant. Does Tairezazh have any other words in the
>same category as _zent_ or is it a closed cateory (thus lexically
>restricted), with plain infinitives used for the remaining cases?
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>>However, _zent_ "to want" isn't syntactically a verb at all - it's an
>>uninflectable adverb. Perhaps your -k could be interpreted as an adverbizer?
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>Yeah, the concept of an adverbizer seems logical, since information is
>added to an existing verb, instead of rearrganging them into an
>infinitive structure.
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>vaksje.
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