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[EM Vürinalt]

Members of the GTZT:

We have pages about verbs, pronouns, prefixes, suffixes, and literature.

These, of course, come very in handy when translating to el glheþ.

However, for those so poorly versed in Romance languages as I, I feel that creation of a page on syntax would be very very helpful. It would be fairly simple to write and would make el glheþ much easier to learn. Things to include would be adjective placement, adverbs, verb infinitives taking prepositions (?), etc., etc.

Secondarily, may I suggest a page of all the contractions and abbreviations found in Talossan be made for easy reference.

Suggesting humbly,
~MV

[Dréu Gavárþic'h]

I, for one, would really like a list of verbs that take a complementary infinitive (putarh, fostarh, etc.)

[Sir C. M. Siervicül]

Nov 25, 2008 21:30:25 GMT -6 EM Vürinalt said:

However, for those so poorly versed in Romance languages as I, I feel that creation of a page on syntax would be very very helpful. It would be fairly simple to write and would make el glheþ much easier to learn. Things to include would be adjective placement, adverbs, verb infinitives taking prepositions (?), etc., etc.

Good idea. There's a whole new Talossan grammar in the works, which should be available within weeks, and several new language pages on the web site will flow from that.

Nov 26, 2008 6:44:35 GMT -6 Dréu Gavárþic'h said:

I, for one, would really like a list of verbs that take a complementary infinitive (putarh, fostarh, etc.)

That should be similar to the list of verbs that don't take a linking preposition:

amarh (to like to)
fostarh (to have to, must)
pevarh (to be able to, can)
säparh (to know how to)
velarh (to want to)

Phrases like laßarh tombarh ("drop", literally "let fall") and laßarh boglharh ("agree to disagree", literally "let boil") suggest that laßarh (to let, allow to) is another such verb.

[Hooligan]

Nov 26, 2008 10:17:03 GMT -6 Sir C. M. Siervicül said:

There's a whole new Talossan grammar in the works, which should be available within weeks, and several new language pages on the web site will flow from that.

Well, there goes the element of surprise. Thanks a lot, Cresti. :-(

...And yeah, when you typed putarh, you meant pevarh = 'to be able to, or empowered to' (which conjugates irregularly and one of its conjugated forms is put, but there is no verb putarh).