Re: Verbal distinctions
| From: | vaksje <vaksje@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 19, 2003, 12:36 |
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 02:12:33PM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting vaksje <vaksje@...>:
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> > [snip]
>
> 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".
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?
> 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?
Yeah, the concept of an adverbizer seems logical, since information is
added to an existing verb, instead of rearrganging them into an
infinitive structure.
> Andreas
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vaksje.
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