Re: Verb Structure

>> > "Yesterday, I was able to post a message on the
>> > conlang list, but I didn't."
>>
>> I supposed I'd start by playing with:
>>
>> during-yesterday existed my-ability for-the-posting of-a-message
>> on-the-conlang-list contrary existed my-doing <temporal>
><verb><past>
>> <poss.pronoun><noun> <obl><noun> <genitive><noun> <locative>
>> <negation> <verb><past> <poss.pronoun><noun>
>>
>Hmm, sounds like an experiment of mine years ago. The language
>had only the verb "there is/was"--
It's sounds similar to one that I designed in 1972 when I was 17, but which
I long ago abandoned. There are also some similarities to my conlang that's
all nouns & their states (no verbs), which is somewhat predictable.

>There.is loving of.you by.me
>There.was falling.down by.John  etc. etc.
> But we still needed all those verbal nouns, and odd noun cases, so why
bother. :-(((

I guess that's up to the person who posted the initial question/proposition.
I mean, why did I create a conlang that was all nouns & their states? or one
that was a Cree/Icelandic creole? or one that used tones to differentiate
nouns from verbs from modifiers? etc. Ultimately, to experience first hand
what it would take to do them.