Re: PoS & heretics (was: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others))

>From: BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
>At 19:04 20.6.2000 -0500, Danny Wier wrote:
>
>>Not to mention that Arabic "technically" only has three parts of speech:
>>verbs, nouns and particles (prepositions, conjunctions, relatives,
>>demonstratives, definite article).  And most nouns are forms of verbs
>>anyway.  Adjectives are in effect verbs of state.
>
>Pretty much the Sanskrit grammarian analysis too: they have nouns and
>adjectives in one class (naaman), verbs in one class (karman) and
>everything else is _anubhakti_ "helpful addition".  Actually they derive
>most naamaani and anubhaktyaas from karmaani anyways.
>
>Funus (my conlang) grammarians have only two classes, called the Moving
>Word and the Resting Word.  What we call verbs would be Moving, while nouns
>and most adverbs would be Resting.  Adjectives would be Moving, except
>participles, which would be Resting.  All Resting forms can be construed as
>infinite forms of Moving/verb forms.
There, I got a solution for Big Six, where some sort of final vowel is
tacked onto a consonant root.  For nouns, it's /u/; for verbs /i/.  Roots
ending in a vowel, however, do not change.

So 'fax' in B6 is _faksu_, but 'to fax' is _faksi_.  But that's purely
optional, since all bound morphemes are not integral parts of the language
and are merely optional.  Another case is the plural marker in -(e)su, but
chances are I'll just use the preposition _meni_ 'many' and Mandarin _men_
'animate/masculine? plural marker'.

Daniel A. Wier  ¶¦¬þ
Lufkin, Texas USA
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