Re: Interrogative mood (Re: Hello...)

En réponse à jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>:

> Christophe Grandsire sikayal:
>
> > En réponse à "Tommaso R. Donnarumma" <trd@...>:
> > [snip]
> >
> > Well, I think my Azak beats you all! :)) Its terminology is a little
> different
> > from usual (it separates negation from other moods, calls "moods":
> moods and
> > aspects, and also has "contextual" affixes which are quite modal too
> :) ), but
> > we can count for it:
> > - one affix for strong affirmation (-as), one for negation (-am),
> > - 15 "modal" non-exclusive suffixes! (they are: temporalized, perfect,
> aorist,
> > imperative, causative, translative, durative, frequentative, eventual,
> > subjunctive, subjective, obligative, capacitive, desiderative, and
> optative, and
> > of course the absence of suffix is also meaningful :) )
> > - 12 "contextual" non-exclusive suffixes! (they are: interrogation,
> exclamation,
> > explanation, approbation, asking, attracting, suspension, certitude,
> insistance,
> > irritation, joy, peace-making)
> > The names are not at all standard, so ask if you want some
> explanations (it may
> > also be that some of them that I thought were acceptable in English
> are in fact
> > only French :) ). Well, it makes 29 suffixes, not bad isn't it? :))
> >
> > Christophe.
> >
>
> You win, Christophe.
Hooray!!! :)))

  Now if those are all completely agglutinable, as
> the
> Yivríndil affixes are, then you can get . . . ::eyes boggle at the
> thought
> of unbeleivably huge number of forms::
>
Well, not only they are all completely agglutinable, but moreover the categories
I gave above are *not* self-exclusive, so the total number of possible forms
(taking 30 suffixes, as no suffix is also meaningful) is 30*30*30=27000 (and
only for those three categories of suffixes, there are others :) ). Of course,
the actual number of possible forms is smaller due to meaninglessness of some
combinations...

> That's what I love about agglutination, and why my major conlangs are
> all
> agglutinative.  BTW, I could have counted more affixes in Yiv. if I had
> included the morphological "aspects," which conflate some categories of
> mood, as do the "phases."  But I still would only have 16 affixes :-(
>
Well, Azak is my only very agglutinative language. I like it, but it's a little
too straighforward to me :)) .

Christophe.