I'd been planning to remove the copula, or use a non-verb kind of word for it. But then I realised that 'to be' isn't the only copula lying around -- there are...
... "remain" and "become" (and "cease to be" and "sometimes be" and so forth) could be seen as aspectual variations on "to be". And aspect seems to be...
Jim, thanks for your ideas on copula aspects, etc. I think I can make them work along the lines you've laid out. I've been working on Konya-2 the last several...
I think I would like to strongly prefer transitive to intransitive verbs. There might be a handful of verbs -- state verbs, I guess -- that just can't be...
... It would basically always be intransitive if it's stative. A causative verb derived from a stative would be transitive. I don't think you need to worry...
... OK, I can see some sense in making most verbs transitive while liberally allowing object deletion (object needn't be expressed if it's obvious or unknown ...
... I agree; as an English speaker, it's a stretch for me too. But try as I might, I cannot come up with clearcut reasons for attributing transitivity to one...
... At this point I'm feeling that I'll be more competent to do this right using a copula particle than stative verbs, because they do feel odd to me. ... Yes,...
... I forgot to mention: a lot of the time it won't make any real difference whether a speaker uses "wa" before a preposition, because the logic of the...
... Yes; I think Rick Harrison's solution in Vorlin was reasonably good, making root words neither transitive nor intransitive, and marking transitivity in the...
... Again, the reason I'm looking at doing it that way is because of my intention to define verbs transitively whenever possible, so the transitives will...
... Why not "fon-lipuye" and "lipun-fe"? These being adjectives, I'm not sure you need "xan-". ... This is less flexible for you, but may be an aid to...
... <jimhenry1973@g...> ... Ummm...I'm not sure. The intransitivity marker exists primarily to allow the creation of transitive and intransitive verb pairs, ...
In the earliest versions of Konya Classic, I relied heavily on subordinate clauses to use verbs to modify nouns. Done judiciously, this mechanism doesn't have...
... Ah, good point. Probably to maximize phonetic difference between semantically similar morphemes you would want to use prefixes with more phonotactic...
... Also, (re: being worried about the syllable count for 'sleepy') we probably can drop the intransitivity marker. Besides, intransitives are supposed to be...
It's going to be quiet on my end for a few days while I focus on Konya-2. Rather than try to juggle all the things we'd like to do, I'm focusing on rebuilding...
... I notice that the Internet Archive doesn't seem to have archived any version of the Konya Classic website yet. You might want to do that. Or I might. ... ...
... I keep local copies of all the versions. Do you think I ought to create an accessible Konya Classic website that the cognoscenti (youse guys) can access? ...
... if ... able to do ... Actually, at Christopher's suggestion, I've been waiting for Konya-2's phonotactics to be finalized before I do any lexical work. ...
I'm still alive, and the big phonotactic revision of Konya is still underway. A few urgent repairs around the house have slowed me down. It may be a couple...
I've been promised by the Chief at least one, and possibly two, full days this weekend to finish off and post this revision of Konya. Sorry for the long delay....
At last, I have updated the web site with the so-called Konya2 version...formally, this is simply Konya Version 037. I've updated these files: sample...
Here are few of my burning questions or issues: 1) "kon-pan-tixun-wi" for 'student' is way ugly. Do we really need to build 'learn' from 'teach' or vice versa?...
I generally feel that head-initial is a bit more logical than head-final. However, I'm considering moving Konya towards head-final (except for subordinate ...
The new version of Konya moves away from bound morphemes. Even common suffixes like "wi" and "yu" (noun and verb conversion markers) are compounded rather than...
I'm starting to believe that Steve Rice's recommendation is wise: that Konya should mandatorily distinguish singular and plural pronouns, at least for some...
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