Re: Native Grammatical terms

Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:

> Hey, do y'all have "native" grammatical terms in your conlangs?  That
> is, have you worked out how the speakers of your conlangs would describe
> their language?
Not so many as yours, but here's what my dictionary says:

_gu"frunon_ 'adverb' (lit. 'do-way-(agent)') [may be obsolete]
_rrothon_ 'adjective' (lit. 'level-(agent)', 'that which gives a range')

Sometimes they are named in school-fashion, i. e. like you teach children,
with 'questions':

_gu"fqo"n_ 'verb' (lit. 'does what?')
_gu"fbrun_ 'adverb' (lit. 'does how?')
_gu"fqaik_ 'adverb of place' (lit. 'does where?') [also for time]

'Noun' is just _kop_ 'thing'; subject is _gu"fkopt_ ('thing which does')
and object is _endin_, of dubious etymology (but it may be old *_en-rhin_
'with _en_', which is the old object-focus mark, nowadays surviving as
the accusative mark <-n>) and the *pre*position _en_ 'about, regarding'.

Finally,
_minksai_ 'conjunction' (with the 'tool' suffix <-ai>, lit. 'joiner').


--Pablo Flores
  http://draseleq.conlang.org/pablo-david/