Re: help with starting out

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Also, with verbs, in Ajuk verbs have a regular series
>of affixes in a regular ordre, rather than having a different form for
>each tense, and a different ending for each person, etc. An andvantage
>of agglutinating langs, if your inflecting lang seems to have to
>artificial a form of inflections, is that agglutinating langs usually do
>have fairly regular systems of affixes, and thus a fully regular system
>won't seem as out of place and unnatural.
Saalangal has a regular series of affixes for tense, mood, and trigger.
It's all regular, and I think is a pretty easy system to remember.
Although, there's quite a few affixes (the triggers are passive or
active). Here's a sample word in all of the tense, mood, and triggers.

tasok - to harbor (ships), a harbor

Without triggers:

tasokit - harbored
tasokon - harbor
tasokun - will harbor
tasokang - would harbor
tasokim - harbored (past participle)
tasokan - harboring (present participle)

With focuses, in present tense, and in active and passive voice
(unorthodox with a trigger language, i know):

actor - tasokoni, tasokone
object - tasokonum, tasokonom
direction - tasokonanga, tasokonong
location - tasokonis, tasokones
instrumental - tasokonan, tasokonayna
beneficial - tasokonini, tasokonene
cause - tasokonaro, tasokonaru

It's a fairly regular system, just pick yer affix, and tack them onto the
roots.

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