Re: Nauradi

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:46:37 -0500, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:

>For my next conlang I've toyed with the idea of making
>attitudinality a mandatory inflectional category rather
>than an optional derivation method.   ANADEW?
Not ANADEW but I did have one never-very-developed sketch that did that,
Vladician (after a high-school friend, and I forget what he did to merit
this particular feature in his language).  Verbs had three degrees of
attitudinality, approbative/neutral/despective; nouns had two, lacking the
neutral degree.  Moreover, in a great swath of the nouns and a few of the
verbs, attitudinality was suppletive; and positive and negative variants
didn't always line up one-to-one (e.g. I think that the approbative degree
had only a single word "creepy-crawly" to set alongside several despective
words for kinds of bugs and worms).

The only other place I've particularly seen that idea is as an offhand
suggestion of Justin B Rye, on http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/lingo.html .

Alex

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