Paul Bartlett | Re: [LFN] Re: La letera H / The letter H

• Autor: Paul Bartlett (“bartlett22183”)
• Tema: Re: [LFN] Re: La letera H / The letter H
• Data: 2008-12-14 00:44
• Mesaje: 2984 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, simon.franova wrote (excerpt):

>> LFN has only a small inflectional morphology (noun plural
>> and a few verb inflections)
>
> It hasn't had verb inflections (-va, -ra) for a long time,
> unless you count the infinitive (-r) - which is so rarely
> used it barely exists - and the participles (-nte, -da) -
> which are derived from verbs, but not verbs themselves.

By any reasonable grammar explication for Indo-European (among which I
include LFN) languages that I am aware of, infinitives and participles
are considered inflections of verbs, even if in some contexts they
change the part of speech.  So the idea that LFN has no inflections
other than a noun plural is simply false.  Period.  End of argument.  I
also note that some users of LFN almost persistently mimic the English
progressive tenses (and almost obsessively and unnecessarily mark
tense at all), which are hardly universal, as if LFN is little other
than relexified English.  Hardly a language universal also.  It seems
that some people just cannot break themselves of their native language
habits.  I have observed the same tendency among other users of
constructed international auxiliary languages.

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Paul Bartlett