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- From: John Cowan <jcowan@hidden.email>
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 18:08:22 -0500
- Subject: [lojban] Voksigid (was: Thoughts on numerical language)
- To: engelang@yahoogroups.com, lojban@yahoogroups.com
(I have cross-posted to lojban and engelang) And Rosta (Work2Home) wrote: > Can you give more examples? The Voksigid page is at http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3141/voksigid.html but unfortunately it is less than helpful with practical examples. I cannot remember the correct Patient tag, but I think it is ref. Definitely tor is Agent and tum is Recipient. So given the verb dona = give, we can make the nouns donator = giver, donaref = gift, donatum = recipient of gift. The tag for stative subjects is len, so given homo = to be human, then homolen = human being. (This is why "homotor" is legal but semantically perverse: what is the agent in the event of someone being human? We don't make ourselves human, nor does anyone else particularly make us human.) A trivial PS grammar of Voksigid: S = Verb S = S PP PP = Prep Noun Noun = Verb-Tag Tag = Prep So to use nouns, they must be preceded with prepositions which specify their case; these prepositions are isomorphic to the tags, but precede rather than follow and are independent verbs, not suffixes. Thus a tentative Voksigid sentence: dona tor homolen ref eskriberef tum amator Gives AGT is:human-ST PAT writes-PAT DAT loves-AGT The human being gives the written work to the lover. AGT = agent, PAT = patient, DAT = recipient, ST = thing in state. And of course we can say: Dona tor donator ref donaref tum donatum which I leave up to y'all to figure out. -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan <jcowan@hidden.email> the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@hidden.email Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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