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Re: New Language - Altsag Venchet

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 27, 2002, 0:48
Joseph Fatula wrote:
> --- Gender --- > Every noun is either animate or inanimate. Animate nouns are living things, > parts of living things, and other things being viewed as capable of action. > There are a number of irregulars, of both genders.
In most animate-inanimate distinctions, irregular forms are assymetrical, that is, it's common to find inanimate objects in an animate category, but to find an animate in the inanimate category is exceedingly rare.
> Objects of prepositions are in the dative case.
All prepositions?
> --- Tense --- > present - > present progressive -aj (-ai after ch or j) > past -un > future -ar
Progressive is actually an aspect, so perhaps -aj should be considered an aspect suffix, with a note that it can only be used in the present?
> --- Aspect --- > Perfective is for completed actions. Habitual, actions repeatedly or > habitually done. Inceptive means "to begin to X", cessative "to stop Xing". > Medial, "in the middle of Xing", "while Xing". Intentional and > unintentional reflect the speaker's intent.
Interesting. Can you use multiple aspect affixes? E.g., can you have, say, -jevar (or perhaps -varje) for intentional starting of an action? -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>