Qatama

Are there aspects of grammar that I should add? What are they? I'd like to see some more complex sentence structures, how Qatama would handle something like "Are you afraid to tell him that you know he's lying?" Also, the section on questions needs to be expanded. You cover yes/no questions with qa, but how does Qatama work around not having words for what, who, when? Is there negation in the present tense? What is the particle for it? If I think of more, I'll let you know. I'm out tonight. So. M I'll answer this here, but later.

Ah, okay. I was about to bump the thread over on the ZBB. M

I have the same questions Berek has; and can't think of any others at the moment. I noticed your updated KneeQuickie page; it looks good! I hope the rest of us noticed it too. I look forward to your answers, especially the ones about complex sentences (as you know, a favorite topic of mine).

I've been looking around for a good format to follow. User friendly and as concise as possible. Any suggestions?

I think the LCK ("Language Construction Kit") format is probably a standard for "user-friendliness". The end-of-chapter questionnaires from Payne's "Describing Morphosyntax" is probably second in popularity. I don't know if it's very concise, though. The Lingua Questionnaire is a good way to be sure you've been complete. It won't be concise unless your language is very simple; in Qatama's case, maybe it will be concise. It's probably about medium in user-friendliness. It's probably the third most popular format. Are those what you meant? And btw do you know how to get to all of them?

Are those what you meant? And btw do you know how to get to all of them? Yeah, and I know where to get them.

Two tense questions...
On this forum page, you write that the negative past is "ngun", whereas you have the neg. past as "ungla" on FrathWiki ... which is correct, if you don't mind me asking? AND, how do you convey conditional or perfect clauses in Qatama? Thanks.

Re: Two tense questions...

On this forum page, you write that the negative past is "ngun", whereas you have the neg. past as "ungla" on FrathWiki ... which is correct, if you don't mind me asking? I don't mind at all. ungla is a more recent change that I didn't really announce or anything, but I still think both can be used. ngun can serve as the subjunctive negative past, and ungla the general negative past. Make sense? AND, how do you convey conditional or perfect clauses in Qatama? Well, let me think about that and get back to you...I haven't put a lot of thought into that yet.

Are there aspects of grammar that I should add? What are they? I'd like to see some more complex sentence structures, how Qatama would handle something like "Are you afraid to tell him that you know he's lying?" Also, the section on questions needs to be expanded. You cover yes/no questions with qa, but how does Qatama work around not having words for what, who, when? Is there negation in the present tense? What is the particle for it? If I think of more, I'll let you know. I'm out tonight. So. M I think this link; http://wiki.frath.net/Qatama_basic_phrases is the best way for me to answer Berek's questions.

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