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Deriving adjectives from nouns (was: Re: mental masturbation)

From:Marcos Franco <xavo@...>
Date:Thursday, June 3, 1999, 10:40
Tem Wed, 2 Jun 1999 15:28:11 EDT, "From
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>> In UTL it would be said "mentala masturbio", > >this is very interesting : may i ask what really means "mentala" ? does =
it=20
>mean that "mens" is the object of masturbatio ? or does it mean that=20 >masturbatio has a mental shape/consistency ? or that the instrument is =
mental=20
>? or that "mens" is the beneficiary thereof ? etc. i think that kind of=20 >adjective is the main cause for semantic mis-translation between =
natlangs. Well, I think you've made your judgement before knowing the issue. You still don't know what's the meaning of -al- in UTL. Anyway, you've made a good comment there and it's something I'm dealing with in UTL. I have four kind of adjectives from a noun in UTL: 1. direct one: menta 2. direct agglutinated one: mentoa / mentea (-o and -e are sing&plural noun endings respectively) 3. indirect (suffixed) one: ment-al-a 4. preposition-compounded one: mento-pora, mento-kuna, mento-pera... As for their meanings: 1m. which is... mento 2m. related with... mento/mente 3m. of (de)... mento/e 4m. por, kun, per, (etc)... mento As you see, 1. and 4. are precise-meaning, though 2. and 3. are not, and I have still to decide some things, like: a. What's the exact meaning of preposition "de" (of) (which would affect 3.) b. Whether it should be better to have 2m. for 3. and and 3m. for 2.=20 c. Whether it would be worthy to have a 5th adjective: genitive one, expressed by -y added to the noun, or to attach genitive's meaning to 2 (after assigning to it 2m to 3). Saludos, Marcos