... and in other ... played by the second (or ... I guess I should say -- as ... the woman', the semantic role ... clarify the verb-object ... alternative...
... I've decided to ditch the overt ditransitive idea. I'll use a functional as a one-syllable generic preposition, but verbs will take typical prepositions to...
... Just because "put" and "steal" don't have ditransitive forms in English, doesn't mean they could not have such in a conlang. Indeed, depending on the...
... Quite so. Just as in natlangs, I doubt I'll be able to avoid some ditransitives carrying more information about their secondary object roles ('to give')...
... No; if it stayed perfect, that would mean no one was using it. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm ...Mind the gmail Reply-to: field...
... need ... this ... of it ... over ... is ... malinstrui ... where a "pan-" form is (a) a ... representing a 'binary' opposite, I'll ... Seconded! Frequency...
... head- ... think ... weird. ... to carry the right kind ... yellow-{noun.marker}' > ... desirable. Let's parse a sentence of Malay: "Burung kakak tua itu...
... in ... Hi Larry, Can you think of any natlang that uses words of more than two syllables for here and there, this and that? I can't. Ignoring nouns, most...
... <jimhenry1973@g...> ... object ... burden ... stay ... Look on it another way. Even tho many natlangs have ditransitive verbs, most of them can express...
Hi, Can I put my hand up for a category or two? Those I'd most like to have a go at include numbers 10 and 11 18, 19, and 21 26, 25, 24 and 28 35 and 36. ...
Yahya, thanks for all your excellent analysis and contributions in your other posts! You can certainly have ownership of any or all of the categories that...
... syllables ... vocabulary, ... for ... With the recent advent in Konya of functionals of the form CSV, a whole new crop of monosyllables has become...
... marker "[- ... We've run into this little bind because we're trying to be clear about derivations. "xele" is a core modifier, meaning 'yellow'. "xeli" is...
Larry, ... Thanks for your kind words. ... you've ... Let's start with a couple, eh? Don't want to be greedy, or to impede progress by biting off more than I...
Larry, ... Interestingly here, Malay has also many simple verbs of form CVCV. It creates many abstract nouns by adding the suffix "-an", corresponding to...
Larry, ... It's a neat scheme, that clearly distinguishes these words by their phonetics. When generating these functionals, would it be practical to also...
Larry, ... Wow! Don't think I can argue with that decision ... :-) But seriously, I think it's good that - a) You've identified and thought about the issue; ...
On 9/28/05, HandyDad <lsulky@...> wrote: hyphen.) So in addition to "yo" ... That sounds like a good idea. The only thing I don't like about Konya-2 (I...
... It does have the advantage of giving a monsyllable for "we" that is mnemonically if not logically related to the pronoun "I". But it wouldn't work with...
... A more logical way of deriving one from the other would be something like "lernigi" for "to teach". I did something like this in gzb, though the affix is...
... In fact, we don't have enough. Names take a two-letter marker, "ya", and in version 037 I have invented the interjection/qualifier, which takes the...
... functionals available, which in ... that I currently handle ... demonstrative pronouns, and ... The extended use of functional forms for common lexicals,...
... practical ... sye, ... Perhaps, and I would be open to "back-forming" the full forms from the more convenient and cleverly chosen contracted forms. "mwi"...
Hi all, ... Thanks for this, Jim. On joining the list, I scanned the messages page and discovered that the list has been running since March. Rather than read...
... I was misremembering based on some of Larry's last messages in that earlier thread, not having had time recently to read the entire revised Konya 037...
... That's cool, Jim; I know the feeling! :-) And I'm taking my time with Konya at the moment, to let it all seep in a bit more. Offhand, I can't see any need...
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