Re: Attitude affixes

On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, FFlores wrote:

> I'm beginning to use attitude affixes in Drasel=E9q and
> other conlangs, after I used some of them in Ciravesu,
> in turn motivated by Quechua attitude affixes. I was
> wondering if any of you have these in your langs.
>=20
> The basic idea is an affix (maybe not very productive)
> that has a very broad meaning in terms of feelings of
> the speaker and the attitude towards the general situation.
>=20
The Charyan languages have quite a system on those lines.
Denden has relatively few, embedded in the modal system
(though these days I tend to term them aspectivizers):

<-hau>=09=09imperative
<-do>=09=09optative
<-men>=09=09affective
<-yara>=09=09despising
<-ju>=09=09certainty
(-joh> ~ <-zo>=09flattering

The Broyan stage language is rather more elaborate:

mear=09=09polite
tuyar=09        polite declining
pah=09=09commanding
mama=09=09deferential
xucho=09        moral obligation
quda=09=09condescendin
-=09=09neutral
mior=09=09objective positive
nini=09=09disrespectful
tu=09=09negative
turma=09        unfriendly
yu=09=09certainty
t'o=09=09surprised
timpo=09        historical, telling a story
diar=09        flattering
yarma=09        friendly
yor=09=09gay (as in mood, not in sexual orientation)
qada=09=09mocking

The first few pages of a Broyan play are presented
at http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/andal/languages/corpus/den_broi.html.
Broyan is one of the few languages I've a finished grammar for,
but only in Dutch.

Boudewijn Rempt  | www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt