Saturday, July 9, 2011

To ze gramvor (the grammar words)

Imitating the old Loglan list, here's my list of grammar words at this point, all in CV form:


Gramvor (Grammar Words)

ba something
be switches position of subject and object
bi equals, is reciprocally equivalent to
bo
bu not, no

ca there, near person addressed
ce pronoun used un subordinate clauses to refer back to something in main clause
ci here
co pronoun that refers back to previous phrase
cu there, not near person addressed, yon, yonder

da 3d person pronoun
de  from
di
do now, present tense marker
du

fa
fe
fi
fo
fu  after, future tense marker

ga
ge
gi  during, marks progressive verb
go  I, me
gu

ha  if
he
hi
ho
hu  marks what follows as modifying what precedes it

ja  and/or
je  and
ji  if and only if
jo  whether or not
ju

ka  what
ke  marks what follows as a phrase that can be handled as an argument
ki
ko  to, towards
ku  opening quotation mark, closed by beku

pa  before, marker of past tense
pe  opening parenthesis bepe closes it.
pi
po
pu

sa  marks what precedes it as modifier of what follows
se
si  marks what precedes as a quantifier
so
su

ta
te  converts predicate indefinite noun
ti
to  the, converts predicate to definite noun
tu

va
ve
vi
vo
vu

xa
xe  acts as suffix to make sentence modifier
xi
xo
xu

za
ze more than.  If not followed by a quantity, "more than one" is understood.  Plural marker.
zi  you
zo
zu

They're here at the Ceqli Wiki:
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4 comments:

  1. Rex, how do you mark a multipart name?

    Rex May

    Bubba's House of Good Eats

    Ceqli Blog: To ze gramvor

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  2. Right now, I figure for just a two-parter I'll use zo twice, thus.
    Slarizo Sulkizo. Or, it can be framed bezo Slari Sulkizo. And _maybe_ use a hyphen, which could be xi. SlarixiSulkizo, but that last has a problem with ambiguity. Too often 'xi' would happen to be part of a name.

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  3. More on that. I figure that written Ceqli makes it clear where a long name begins, of course. Hwaxiqtonzo. And stress pattern will show where it starts in speech. HWAxiqtonzo.

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  4. 'Zo' would also often be part of a name. Is there a mechanism for enunciating non-Ceqli names?

    What I did in Qakwan was define a "never occurs elsewhere noway nohow" particle, pronounced like French 'eu' in 'feu', to mark the end of a name. The beginning is marked with a different "here comes a name" particle, which may be omitted if the name naturally conforms to Qakwan morphology.

    (In "practice", the "here comes a name" particle is used the first time the name is uttered, regardless of its Qakwaniness, and omitted thereafter, again regardless of its Qakwaniness.)

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