Re: MeloChalaka
| From: | Heather Rice <florarroz@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 25, 2001, 10:15 |
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Well, you sent me for a spin there. I actually had
not really hammered out all the rules and such, so
writing anything in my language has been sort of like
an outlaw running around a wild wild west town without
a sherrif. But those days have past, for both the
town and for my language.
So, here it is.(I hope the format doesn't get
scrambled)
I give La do
I give it La nu do
I give to you La a mo do
I give it to you La mo ke nu do
I am given La dob
to you given A mo dob
by it given Kat nul dob
I am given to you La a mo dob
I am given to you by him La a mo kat nul dob
I give myself La la dob
I give myself to you La a mo dob
ke - conjugation between DO and IDO
-b - on the verb makes the verb intransitive
a - a preposition meaning to
kat - a preposition meaning by
-l - agreeing with kat to mean by
(Does this cover everything?)
The point of this paradigm is that nothing, with the
exception of a few prepositional phrases and the
transitive marking on the verb, nothing here is
declined or conjugation. It is all relative to
position. So, tense, mood, voice, person, number,
anything is really just a coloration of what you have
here. And these modifiers can also free up the order
rules. So that
I give it - La nu do OR Nu la dol
Here the verb is marked for the first person.
So, to answer your question about voice, um, well,
however. I have just nailed down this pattern, and I
think with this the choices of voice can be almost
unending, so I think I will leave that juicy little
problem for when I get there.
Thanks for your questions, by the way, they really
helped me think this out.
Heather
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