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The verb system of Heefahoshaj is divided upon a realis/ irrealis
basis, with aspect being the secondary indicator.

Such as this:
________|perfective_|_imperfective|
irrealis|subjunctive|future_______|
realis__|past_______|present______|

The person is indicated by suffixes, which occur in seperate forms
rarely, mainly for the coupula and emphasis.

There are four persons, and two number divisions (singular and plural)

Both the subject and object are indicated when possible, but if the
object is either a full noun or a person's name, the object is not
indicated.

Manner is also indicated, though this is indicated through "echoing"
a strange pattern that seems to be unique to Heefahoshaj. The
infinitive of the verb contains a structure after the "true root"
that is -?V in nature, where V is the first vowel of the root.
The manners that are indicated are voluntary, involuntary, reflexive
(to one's self), mutual (to each other) and conditional
(if...then...). Manners may stack.

The division voluntary/involuntary is the main one, with a plosive
(when representing no other manner, or, in their linguistic
terms, 'clear' it is ?) representing voluntary, and fricatives
(when 'clear' h). Other manners are indicateded by POA. If mutual,
bilabial or labiodental, if reflexive alvolear, if conditional,
velar. In the case of velar, for fricative one uses a post-alvolear
fricative.







Sun Jan 9, 2005 10:16 pm

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The verb system of Heefahoshaj is divided upon a realis/ irrealis basis, with aspect being the secondary indicator. Such as this: ...
arcanesock Offline Send Email Jan 9, 2005
10:16 pm

Hallo! ... Well, I don't think the terms "subjunctive", "future", "past" and "present" are well-chosen here. But I don't know what else to call the...
Jörg Rhiemeier
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Jan 10, 2005
7:28 pm

... That is just how I have seen it in reference to Hopi, from which I stole the idea. ... plural) ... Yes. That would be how it is generally used in reference...
arcanesock Offline Send Email Jan 11, 2005
12:30 am

... My conlang Drughukî (based on the snippets of Tolkien's Drúedain language, seen as a sibling language to Rokbeigalmki) also has a form of echoing. It's...
Steg Belsky
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Jan 10, 2005
8:21 pm

... through "echoing" ... reflexive ... form ... the ... and ... Nifty! But, I was speaking in reference to natlangs, of which there seem to be none that...
arcanesock Offline Send Email Jan 11, 2005
12:18 am

... A nagging voice is telling me I've seen something similar in a natlang, possibly Swahili. There's the Sanskrit nominative ending on vowel-stem nouns,...
Anton Sherwood
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Jan 21, 2005
6:42 am

... I think Arcanesock here refers to what is known in Georgian as _ktseva_ (Russian term - _versiya_ "version"), that explicitly indicates, whose benefit is...
Isaac Penzev
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Jan 11, 2005
10:11 am

Hallo! ... I see. And as I said, I don't know better handy terms. ... Yes. ... Yes. You set up a two-dimensional array of grammatical categories (which isn't...
Jörg Rhiemeier
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Jan 11, 2005
9:08 pm

... irrealis ... and ... call ... forms ... Proximate ... plosive ... mutual, ... conditional, ... philosophical ... affixes ... Thanks for the suggestion. ......
arcanesock Offline Send Email Jan 12, 2005
1:50 am

... Yea verily for Google hath no beginning . . . . ? -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/ obsolete since 21 December 2001...
Anton Sherwood
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Jan 21, 2005
6:35 am

... Presumably in some dialects one or more of the distinctions has been lost by phonemic shift (such as /T/ > /f/) and replaced with a circumlocution. -- ...
Anton Sherwood
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Jan 21, 2005
6:47 am
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