Re: Re : verbal classifiers

Mathias wrote:

>Your idea is just great : that's roughly how Tunu works ;-).
>It has 35 preverbs which enable me to make verbs from any 29 kinds of nouns
>listed on
>
>http://members.aol.com/manishtusu/tunuverb.html
>
>However I've always refreined from using too many locative and lative
>preverbs (there are only eni = to be by/at and era = to wend as)
>
>Examples :
[snip]

I just had a look at your Tunu page.  Very nice stuff.  Using preverbs
as quasi-case-markers is quite clever!  I think Awaari, if I pursue it,
will take a slightly different course, but still, it's interesting and
useful to see what someone else has done with essentially the same idea...

Matt.

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