Boreanesian Grammatical Structure

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Od: Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
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Data: 18 grudnia 1998 10:26
Temat: LONG: Boreanesian Grammatical Structure (was: Only One Core Argume=
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>Tim Smith wrote:
>
>>At 04:51 PM 12/16/98 +0100, Kristian Jensen wrote:
>>>I have posted details about Boreanesian sentence structure
>>>before, but for the sake of clarity I could post a review for
>>>those interested (especially for the newer members on CONLANG-
>>>L). It'll definitely demonstrate what I mean by a language with
>>>only one core argument. For those of you who are interested in
>>>trigger languages in general, it may certainly be of interest.
>>
>>I'd like to see that reposted.  I remember seeing it before, but
>>I don't seem to have saved it.  In fact, I was just recently
>>trying to remember what you said several months ago about the
>>underlying argument structure of the Philippine trigger
>>languages.
>
>First, allow me to apologize for taking me this long to reply. I
>wanted to make sure that what I was going to forward was up to date.
>But I ended up rewriting everything of what I posted half a year
>ago. I'd appreciate any comments, please. Anyways, here goes:
>
>The most important feature I feel reflects Boreanesian (and other
>trigger languages) most is their possession of only one core
>argument - sentences and clauses with two core arguments do not
>exist in Boreanesian. Instead, Boreanesian has only predicate
>clauses with a single argument. Below are some English examples of
>such predicate clauses:
>
[big cut]

i can't say that i've read this post carefully, my english doesn't allow =
me
do that;
but as i understand i've done (i'm doing, rather) something similar:
i've kicked out be-verb and i'm trying to kick out other verbs making onl=
y
nominal predicates:

there is no problem with:
just nominal predicate:
'me[abs] man[abs]'

adjectival predicate:
'man[abs] white[abs]'
(in fact there are no distinction between 'noun' and 'adjective')

but i don't know how to express verb like 'getting white';
i mean the situation when feature is more and more intensive, or thing
become (an active verb);
(like this famous example:
passive: dwell, live (i could express it in that way: 'man[abs]
forest-inhabitant[abs]')
active: settle (??? something like 'man forest-inhabitant-becomer))

i might express it as inhabitant[noun]-[some noun]
but i do not know what word use, what its meaning should be...

(or if eregativ:e
forest[abs] man-habitat[abs]
forest[abs] man-habitat-?becomer[abs])