Re: 'out-' affix in conlangs?

Am Vendredo 08 Aŭgusto 2008 schrieb Henrik Theiling:
> Hi!
>
> Does anyone have an affix in their conlang that corresponds more or
> less directly to the English prefix 'out-' as in transitive verbs as
> 'outperform', 'outsell', etc.?
>
> It would be a nice feature if a language had this a the only way to
> form comparisons, especially languages where advectives are verbs.  So
> you would say ,Jim outtalls John'.  ANADEW?
>
The conlang I made, Rejistanian, can use the comparison particles as verbs due
to the 'weak typing discipline'* of the language. Of course this implies that
the adjective is already known from previous sentences: Jason mi'salan. Anna
mi'alna. (Jason is big, Anna is bigger). Esperanto does something similar
with 'pliŝati' (to prefer) (pli: 'more'; ŝati: to like).

~Mechthild

*HIJACK: Is there a better linguistic term for the ease with which you can
change whether a word is a noun, adjective or a verb? The best example for
weak typing (easy/implicite changes) might be Esperanto, German is of the
languages I know the one with the most problematic 'typecasts.

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