Re: Stop Me Before I Call Them Verblets!

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 04:42:45 -0800, Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>
wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Grossmann" <steven@...>
>To: <CONLANG@...>
>Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 8:59 AM
>Subject: Stop Me Before I Call Them Verblets!
>
>
>> In my grammar for my latest imaginary language, Kranre, I don't have
>> infinitives, but use sequences of finite verbs to do the work that
>> finite + infinitive sequences do in English.
>> (Is that called a serial verb construction?)
>>
>> But I have two kinds of participle.
>>
>> 1.      One forms noun-adjuncts that do the work of brief particple
>> clauses and postpositional phrases.   e.g.
>>
>> MAN     HOUSE           BE-IN-NOUN.ADJUNCT.PARTICIPLE
>> (the man in the house)
>>
>> WOMAN   HORSE   RIDE-NOUN.ADJUNCT.PARTICIPLE
>> (the woman riding the horse)
>>
>> 2.      The other kind of participle forms verb-adjuncts that do the
>> work of brief absolute clauses.
>>
>> SMOKE           EMIT-VERB.ADJUNCT.PARTICIPLE            CAR
>>     CRASH-PAST
>> (billowing smoke, the car crashed)
>>
>> Any ideas on what I should call these kinds of participles?
>>
>> Stop me before I call them "verblets"!
>>
>> Thanks to all who answer,
>>
>> Jim
>
>Perhaps just verbs that can be used to make dependant clauses?  That view
>seems perfectly fine to me.  Just as we in English have participular forms
>of verbs, you might have adjunct-clause forms of verbs.
>
>Joe Fatula
I might call the latter type coverbs, but I'm certainly no expert.

Jeff