- Title
- On the mood system of Eurasto
- Creator
- Libert, Alan Reed
- Relation
- ISPEC 7th International Conference on Social Sciences & Humanities. ISPEC 7th International Conference on Social Sciences & Humanities: the Proceedings Book (Mus, Turkey 18-19 September, 2021) p. 169-172
- Relation
- https://en.ispecongress.org/books
- Publisher
- ISPEC Publications
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Eurasto is a (very obscure) artificial auxiliary language created by a Major G. Tacchi of Southsea, England; it is based on English. Artificial languages are languages which have been deliberately created, unlike natural languages such as Turkish and English; artificial auxiliary langauges are artificial languages meant to be used as means of communication among people who do not speak the same natural languages. Most major artificial auxiliary languages, e.g. Esperanto, aim have simple morphology so as to make them easier to learn; they will thus have very few different forms of verbs. However, Eurasto has 13 moods, more than many or most natural languages, the simple, negative, endeavor, intensive, feeble, commence, continue, end, perhaps, potential, bias, volative, and imperative. This paper will look at these moods in an effort to determine whether they are all in fact moods (or whether some of them should rather be labelled as aspects), and when they occur. To answer the second question the very limited amount of textual material in Eurasto can be examined to see to what extent verb forms with these moods occur (it might not be surprising if some of them do not occur at all outside of sentences used to exemplify them), and in what contexts they occur. This will be done to a limited extent in the present paper. Comparisons will be made with other artificial languageswhich also have complex verbal morphology.
- Subject
- Eurasto; artificial languages; Major G. Tacchi; moods
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1450037
- Identifier
- uon:43808
- Identifier
- ISBN:9786257720649
- Language
- eng
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