Re: Looking for a new grammatical term

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 05:35:52 +0200, Remi Villatel <maxilys@...> wrote:
> My conlang, Shaquelingua, has two kinds of possession: alienable possession
> and inalienable possession.
>
> I just use the terms "possession" and "possessive" for the alienable possession.
>
> And I used "partition" and "partitive" for the inalienable possession. It
> sounded good --because of the root "part"-- to mean "part of".
>
> A recent thread on the list made me realize that my use of the adjective
> "partitive" was very confusing. It's close... but not so close from the
> usual meaning.
>
> So, do you have some ideas for a new term? Well, two new terms: a name and
> an adjective. I exhausted all my tank of imagination on "partitive" and I
> can't find anything better.
Suggestion: What's your native lang's terms for them? In one of my langs (Trentish) there
are alienably and inalienably possessed[1] nouns... The collective of things
that are alienably (or optionally) possessed are called |apen| /Ap_>en/
"inventory, possessions"[2]. There should be a word corresponding to
inalienable [inherent] possession but I don't think I ever got around to making
it (and I can't run my root generator ATM).


	*Muke!
[1] Actually, I think it may technically be inherently/optionally possessed--I've
lost all my notes on the system, and will probably have to rebuild it...
[2] If the system _is_ inherent/optional, then |apen| itself will be inherently
possessed, even though it refers to a set of optionally possessed things :p
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