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Re: [ceqli] ser



On 1/14/06, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote:
>
> On Jan 3, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Jim Henry wrote:

> > I am not particular about zer, ser, kar or fe; but
> > I am curious about your using zer to mean
> > both "to do" and "doer" instead of "to do"
> > and "doing, action, deed"; similarly "sel" = "to sell"
> > and "seller" instead of "to sell" and "sale,
> > act of selling".  To me the latter seems a more
> > natural way to use verbs nominally; but either
> > should work as long as it's consistent throughout
> > the language.
>
> This notion is based on the Loglan idea, whence Ceqli sprung, that
> everything is a verb.   If I go with it in Ceqli, it means

That all works are verbs by default doesn't
necessarily say anything about what those
verbs mean when they are used as nouns.
As I said, it makes more sense to me to
have a nominalized verb mean "act of doing
X" instead of "person or thing that is doing X
/ does X habitually".  "Everything is a verb"
does not logically imply "nominalized verbs
refer to doers rather than deeds".

> jin = is-a-person
> to jin = the one which is a person.
>
> So you can say 'go jin' for I'm a person.

Yes, sure.

> And, logically, if
> kam = work
> go kam = I work, or I'm a worker
> so
> to kam - the worker.

Hm, maybe.  OK, if "to kam" meant
"the work, the act/process of working" then
I guess "to jin" would tend to mean
"the being-a-person".  Would that work?

In any case, this "everything is a verb"
and "a nominalized verb signifies a
person or thing that does the action of the verb"
must be documented in the grammar; I don't
recall reading about it before, at least not
as explicitly as you've written in your last
couple of messages.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm