Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 27/09/99 20:12:10 , Charles a =E9crit :
> > The language, 'Bitha', for now is mostly agglutinative,
> > with suffixes, infixes and prefixes, and a SVO word order. The thing I'=
m
> > having trouble is with sticking two verbs in a sentence, like the
> > english "I want to go home."
> =20
> Lots of auxiliary verbs glued into the verb as affixes.
> Good candidates are "want" "would" "will".
> (me) home+allative travel+desire+present+...+...+1stperson
> =20
or lots of auxiliary verbs glued into the verb as affixes.
1st person+present+desire+travel+... home+allative
that's the good thing with Bitha : SVO but also some suffixes and
infixes like in some natlangs.
> Or if it's more like a compound, why not root1+root2+affixes...
> =20
> Then there's the serial-verb construction, or plain infinitive.
> "I want him and his horde to go and jump off a tall cliff."
> ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
> =20
me want he accompany horde-he go jump depart cliff tall fall ?
> > Anyway, any comments
> > would be helpful I think... thanks...
> =20
> Now you know better.
now Joe knows twice as better.
mathias