Re: Verbal system in Itakian

At 04:19 02/03/00 -0800, you wrote:
>CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>>You're right. "Source" means that the action "comes from something", but
>>in
>>a rather metaphoric way (that's what I wanted to mean: destination and
>>source are rather metaphoric names, they mustn't be taken for their
>>spatial
>>meaning). When you say "I look at the book", the book can be considered
>>source of my looking (same for "I read the book": the book is not modified
>>by the action, it's simply the source of the things read). I think that's
>>quite an interesting trigger :) .
>
>
>Interesting, what a sublte way to say it :). I like it actually, great
>work there!
>
Thank you :) . I still have to work on it though, but the principle is
here. I wonder if it's very naturalistic, but if I use the same root for
verbs like 'see' and 'look at' or 'watch', then the presence of such
triggers is quite justified :) .

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