Thursday, October 28, 2010

Negation and Compound words, Amazon Martial Arts

Whoa, while since I posted a blog.

So the Amazon Dictionary which I will be putting up as a PDF in the future has yet to be finished. The current word count is 20 something words and counting. I have a bunch of verbs and I'm using a Classical Greek vocab to create the starting word list.

So negation within Amazo! Negation is done by first deciding what needs to be negated. If the sentence is active, aka the Agent is doing something to the experience the arguments of the verb determine that the Negation marker goes before the Subject and then the Verb. That means that in an Amazo clause the neg marker is Neg+verb-voice, and Neg+noun/subject. Basically Amazo featgures DOUBLE negation if to state the obvious :)

Now something else that I added recently is the usage of Crasis to create new nouns. In English we have a massive list of suffixes that create words out of verbs or other nouns! In Amazo you create the meaning of this by finding the desire noun or verb and then attaching another pronoun or corresponding noun to it. So Scientist would translate when done in Amazo to roughly "He/she/it who does science!"

Also, the vocative marker is now also used to create emphatic units of a clause.

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