Re: conlang servey

 --- Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> wrote: >
Teoh wrote:
> >On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:57:21AM +0000, Andreas
> Johansson wrote:
> >[snip]
> > > As mentioned, Tairezazh lacks a passive. English
> passives with an
> >explicit
> > > agent would be rendered by changing the syntax
> of the corresponding
> >active
> > > sentence. Ones without an explicit agent are
> handled by Tairezazh's
> > > liberal-minded failure to require that
> transitive verbs have subjects;
> >you'd
> > > say what amounts to "him saw" for "he was seen".
> >
> >Ahhh. This feature is *quite* Ebisedian. :-)
> Ebisedian allows you to
> >elide just about every noun in a sentence, as long
> as it is clear from the
> >context. None of the noun cases are "required" in
> any given sentence. In
> >fact, a sentence consisting of a lone verb is both
> grammatically correct
> >and semantically meaningful -- it draws meaning
> from its context.
> >
> This is, to some extent, doable in Tairezazh too.
> You could say simply
> _staksek at es kasteg_ "killed in the square" to
> mean something like
> "killing occured on the square" or "people where
> killed in the square". And
> of course there's verbs like _kresht_ "rains" that
> cannot take any subject
> or object at all.
i can put in a 'me too' here as well

|Cawr Dawg gonbok|
did died square
there was a killing in the square

cf |dans Cawr regal Dawg gonbok|
crowd did queen died square
the crowd killed the queen in the square

( a brief note : the nouns in bac are _indefinite_
here. this is perfectly regular and idiomatic, as they
haven't yet been mentioned and must first be in the
indefinite to fix their reference )

|Pens|
rains

you could also say |pes Pens|, rain rains, or indeed
|pess Pens| torrents rain

bn

=====
bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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