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Re: Latejami/Saweli

In a message dated 6/8/2008 05:49:58 AM Central Daylight Time, veoler@hidden.email writes:


Is the POS marker for conjunctions a productive derivational morpheme? Is is
possible to derive a conjunction from a verb, or a verb from a conjunction?
If so, what is its semantics? E.g. what does "tesa" mean? Or "kopye"?


They are productive in Saweli.  Whether they are in Latejami, I'm not so sure, but I would use them as if they are productive.
I'm not sure what they would mean, though, which is the problem.  "Tesa"/ze(p) as 'to and' just doesn't make sense to me, although a different gloss might.  The same with "kopye"/vaver.  If a decent meaning can be found for it, then the word is good.  Otherwise it's just a potential form with no practical use.
"tes-"/ze- has no inherent structure, so that would have to be added explicitly:
tesye [No/Structure-n] - and, plus. [Etym: "-tes" is the classifier for 'true conjunction']

stevo