Re: A'stou part III: the Personal System and the Verb (LONG)

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> It's quite a strange system isn't it? I guess it's very well-suited for
> political debate :) . What do you think of it?
Bizarre!  :-)  Very intriguing ideas, altho it seems very artificial to
me.  Are there plurals of some of these persons?

> - active voice: suffix -ia- just after the verbal root,
> - middle voice: no suffix (yes, in A'stou the middle voice is the unmarked
> one!).
Stranger and stranger ....

> - present tense: infix -n- after the first vowel of the root,
> - past tense: infix -sh- after the first vowel of the root,
> - future tense: infix -k- after the first vowel of the root.
Groovy!  Infixes!  Viva los infixes!  :-)

> On the
> other hand, the "narrative" mood is the mood of stories and quotations.
Interesting.

> For that, you have
> to precise the name of the person you talk to, if the context doesn't make
> it clear).
That's a pretty cool restriction.

> NOTE2: Of course, intransitive verbs in active voice have only the active
> subject endings, not the object ones.
Since intransitive verbs couldn't make a distinction between active and
middle, why wouldn't they just take the unmarked (i.e., middle) voice?
In fact, if you did that, then the active prefix would make sense - it
would be a transitivity marker.


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