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Re: Re : Re: A question about connecting sentences

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Date:Monday, September 27, 1999, 20:35
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'=
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> > 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