Wednesday, 10 November 2010

The Future Tense

Under the new development of Kareyku we would only have 3 transitions according to hierarchy. The Future Tense would be expressed then:

1. expressed by infix -keyo-
2. expressed by infix -deyo-
3. expressed by infix -teyo-

Pretty simple, this would get us such constructions as:

qappakeyo I will eat
tokiteyo He will protect

Further developed with evidentials:

qappakeyo-s  I will eat (fact)
oshan tokiteyo-n I hear he will protect them
tanadeyo-ch You will speak to him (I assume)

As for their negative forms:


1. expressed by infix -ki-
2. expressed by infix -di-
3. expressed by infix -ti-

pile qappakis I will not eat fish
oshan tanakilcha I will obviously not talk to them
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2 comments:

  1. Nico1 February 2011 at 23:48

    Aren't those really suffixes?

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  2. Dro. Esploranto7 February 2011 at 22:04

    They are in fact suffixes in the way the append to the verb, but the name transitions is used due to the fact that they mark the kind of transition from one person to another.

    Also they become 'infixes' when an evidential is added.

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