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--- In txeqli@y..., Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: > A quick question for the group. Should Txeqli mimic Mandarin thus: > > Go dorm. I sleep. > Go dorm zi. I put you to sleep. > > Go djoy. I'm happy. > Go djoy zi. I make you happy. > > That is, convert an intransitive to a transitive simply by > adding an object? One concern I have is sentences like this: Kven djoy felin... At this point, we don't know if it is "Kevin [make] happy [the] cat..." or "Kven [who is] a happy cat...". Quite different meanings. Glosa, which has a similar structure, has similar problems. It has optional markers to start the verb phrase, but some people don't like to use them. Generally, you *can* figure out, by context, where the verb starts, but only after you've looked ahead in the sentence. I find that frustrating, and would like to be able to figure out the meaning by reading the sentence once, in order. So, to make a short story long, I do like the idea of verbing adjectives like this, but also fear a lack of markers that indicate breaks between S, V, and O parts of a sentence. Kven