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Re: Complement clauses

From:Rik <rik@...>
Date:Monday, June 23, 2003, 19:29
On Thursday 19 June 2003 12:06 pm, you wrote:
> Anyway, I'm still interested in how y'all form complement > clauses in your conlangs, so I'll repost this question. > All intricacies are more than welcome! > > Daniel Andreasson >
Gevey can do compliment clause structures, but will often abandon them in favour of adding the "I know that", "you see that", "we will like", "she enjoyed", etc bit as an infinitive verb: --> I know that the dog caught the ball. ~g> te secase ~e> I[s] know[v] ~g> eft tuusrhe yuu laep kaptate ~e> that[conj] dog[s] ball[d.ob] caught[v] or ~g> tuusrhe yuu laep kaptate secan ~e> dog[s] ball[d.ob] caught[v] know[inf.v] Similarly: --> I know that this gossip had finished ~~> te secase evd yuu telaa doscisem glaa suatate ~~> yuu telaa doscisem glaa suatate secan People might find the extension of the idea to these sentences interesting, as they differ to the way things are done in English: --> I swim in the river ~~> vihjuu dhount lugzhase te and --> I like swimming in the river ~~> vihjuu dhount lugzhase te tokan --> I swim across the river ~~> mavyuu dhount lugzhase te and --> I prefer to swim across the river ~~> mavyuu dhount lugzhase te vijan Vocabulary: dhounuu (yuu dhount) - river tuusrhe (ye tuusehrh) - dog doscismuu (yuu doscisem) - gossip laebuu (yuu laeb) - ball mavyuu - across the vihjuu - in the kaptan - catch lugzhan -swim secan - know suatan - finish tokan - like vijan - prefer eft / evd - that glaa - cessation te - I telaa - this Rik, knee deep. --- http:www.kalieda.org/gevey/index.html The Gevey language resource