Re: Chevraqis: a sketch

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 01:29:52PM -0400, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
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> I realize Arabic *doesn't* handle it this way, but what I've been doing
> is have affixes attach to the three-syllable base morphemes to produce
> infinitives in different aspects/moods (?).  You then conjugate those
> infinitives by lopping off the -u ending and replacing with whatever
> suffix.  So I guess it's a two-stage process, born of my foolish attempt
> to marry bits of Arabic verbs and bits of Japanese verbs.  We'll see
> where it goes--I expect to have to do complete overhauls on the grammar
> every so often anyway.
Hey, I think this is a cool idea... make a hybrid of Arabic and
Indo-European systems. So the first part of the verb inflects like Arabic,
and the suffix behaves like Indo-European conjugations! Maybe you could
even string verbs together this way, somewhat like agglutinizing(sp?)
languages. Hmmm, a three-way hybrid (tribrid?). I think this has the
potential to become something really interesting...

Just my $0.02. OK, I better get back to working on my own conlang and stop
spewing all over this mailing list. ;-)


T