Re: Existential clauses

In a message dated 7/10/04 7:54:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
post@BECKERSCARSTEN.DE writes:

<< OTOH, I don't know if I should allow verbless sentences, because in Ayeri's
 morphology, verbs are very important. They carry much important information
 (person, time, aspect, case of the triggered argument).
  >>
I am developing an attempt to answer this in Rihana-ye. Rihana-ye has no main
verb
meaning to be, so as in your example "I am happy" would be "seba giva-i" I
happy.
But there is now a tendency to add  the sufffixes which usually signal verb
tense to the adjective if the sentence is not present tense, so "I will be
happy" would be "seba giva-i-vi" "I happy will" Even the "wi" which indicating the
past which is usually a prefix  can be used as a suffix this way--I found a
sentence in a text lately that read "feveba nibiva-i-wi"
meaning "they were afraid" where "nibiva-i"means "afraid" and "wi"is past,
and feveba is the older irregular form of "they."
John Leland