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Re: [saweli] quote of the day

Awesome!

Is it a coincidence that "yen" resembles Esperanto "jen"? :-)
Questions: "b" means that there are two arguments. I wonder what happens if you use open nouns: needs the suffix to indicate the quantity of arguments as well? 
Can you please give other examples instead of "b" (other verb suffixes)?
The u-y-w thing is interesting. How does it work? Maybe I got something wrong with the "become obvious"... :-/ 
Could you please formulate some examples with and without u/y/w?

Thank you very much,
Stephan



MorphemeAddict@hidden.email schrieb:
In a message dated 6/6/2007 7:42:46 AM Central Daylight Time, sts@hidden.email writes: 



First, I cannot quite read Saweli without knowing where the prefixes and
suffixes begin and what they mean. For example, if you use a word like
"malsanulejo", I need to know

mal - opposite
san - health
ul - person
o - nominative noun singular

not just "hospital, noun".

Bye,
Stephan
Saweli has no prefixes. All Latejami prefixes become secondary endings (after the primary part-of-speech (POS) endings) in Saweli. 
Here's some more info:
Yen wufenkab qu'uslus resu zag yen vaxeb es suglandasu ye'ad yo'abanzumeb uglas. 

yen - [present-imperfective]
      cl. "ye" [P/F-s] = present tense. POS "n" = disjunct
wufenkab - belong to
cl. "wu" [P/F-s] = other binary relational state. mod. "fe" = 'own/possess'. POS "b" = verb, 2 args, static. 
qu'uslus - the future
cl. "qu'u" [P-s] = non-recurring period of time. mod. "slu" = 'future/after/post/late/finish'. POS "s" = closed noun. 
resu - person [generic]
cl. "re" [P-s] = group member'. POS "s" = closed noun. sec. ending "u" = generic. 
zag - [here] who
cl. "za" [F/P-s] = 'genitive/relative clause linker'. POS "g" = open adjective. 
vaxeb - imagine, envision
cl. "va" [P/F-s] = 'mental state [Scalar Relational]'. mod. "xe" = 'meaning/symbol'. POS "b" = verb, 2 args, static. 
es - [anaphor of "resu"] they
anaphoric cl. "e" derives from any cl. with first vowel "e", in this case "re" (in resu). POS "s" = closed noun. 
suglandasu - opportunity [generic]
cl. "su" [P-s] = 'performance attribute'. mod. "gla" = 'thankful/grateful/deserving'. "n" separates root from suffixes. suffix "da" = 'quality'. POS "s" = closed noun. sec. ending "u" = generic. 
ye'ad - before
cl. "ye'a" [P/F-s] = 'past tense'. POS "d" = adverb/case tag (here it marks a case tag). 
yo'abanzumeb - become obvious
cl. "yo'a" [AP/F-s] = 'epistemic evidentiality modality'. mod. "ba" = 'maximal polarity'. "n" is separator. suffix "zu": "z" = 'change to dynamic'; "u" = 'no change to first arg. type'; (here it remains AP). lack of "w" or "y" means focus is not changed; it's still +F. suffix "me" = 'middle voice'. POS "b" = verb, 2 args, static. 
uglas - [anaphor of "suglandas"] they
anaphoric cl. "u" derives from any cl. with first vowel "u", in this case "su" (in "suglandasu"). POS "s" = closed noun. 

If the word contains no suffixes, then the separator "n" is not used.

stevo