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

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.  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::

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 :-(

Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
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