Nicholas Hempshall | Re: [europidgin] tenses and verb markers

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Autor: Nicholas Hempshall (“nick_hempshall”)
Tema: Re: [europidgin] tenses and verb markers
Data: 2002-09-24 15:53
Mesaje: 212 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

George Boeree <cgboeree@...> wrote:
> Treat ALL verbs as if they were active participles
> then "introduce"
> them with one of three verb markers.
>
> es (present)
> era (past)
> sera (future)
>
> Instead of many noun
> markers, as in LFN, we could have only five:
>
> la (def, sing)
> li (def, plur)
> un (indef, sing)
> di (indef, plur)
> lo (abstract)
>
> ... followed by the noun phrase.  (This and that
> would then be phrased
> "la...asi, la...ala," etc.)
>
> Es, era, and sera still keep their function as "to
> be," when followed by
> a noun phrase, starting, of course, with la, etc.
>
> Any thoughts on this idea?

This is great!

Nick

PS Some questions -

No passive participles?

Passive expressed by sentence structure:
"he was hit" > "someone hit him"
"un alga era copla le" ?

"my book" >
"la me libro" or "la libro de me" or "la libro me"?

"my books" >
"li me libro" or "li libro de me" or "li libro me"?

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