Stacking modal verbs

Started by Muzer, November 02, 2010, 06:02:01 PM

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Muzer

I don't need this for anything, this is completely out of interest.

Are modal verbs stackable? That is to say, can you do this:

Oe zene tsivun fìkem sivi

"I must be able to do this"

...? Or don't we know?
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Tirea Aean


Kemaweyan

I think it's possible :) Other example:

  Oe zene fmivi fìkem sivi.
  I must try to do it.
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Tirea Aean

Quote from: Kemaweyan on November 02, 2010, 06:16:42 PM
I think it's possible :) Other example:

  Oe zene fmivi fìkem sivi.
  I must try to do it.

hmmm... fmi strikes me somehow differently from new tsun zene(or does it)

waht about

oe tsun zivene tsakem sivi (i can must do that? i am able to have to do taht?)
oe zene nivew tsakem sivi (i must want to do that?)

it seems a stretch(sometimes even a STREEEEEEETCH) but it MAY be possible.

also this:

tsun oe zivene. a hair ambiguous perhaps, but <iv> kinda gets rid of ambiguity. what does this mean? i can must...
zene oe tsivun. the reverse. is there a difference in meaning? likely.

It doesnt seem generalizable. things like zene fmivi and zene tsivun or new tsivun(oel new futa tsivun) might be more common, but things like tsun zivene are probably as weird as they are in english, but i could be wrong?

Kemaweyan

Quote from: Tirea Aean on November 02, 2010, 06:33:22 PM
waht about

oe tsun zivene tsakem sivi (i can must do that? i am able to have to do taht?)
oe zene nivew tsakem sivi (i must want to do that?)

Yeah, it seems strange.. But what are you thinking about this:

  Oe zene tsivun 'iveyng sìpawmìri nìwotx.
  I must be able to answer all questions.
Nìrangal frapo tsirvun pivlltxe nìNa'vi :D

`Eylan Ayfalulukanä

If stacking modal verbs doesn't seem right, what is/might be wrong? Is a question of breaking some rule I'm missing, or is it something more stylistic or 'cultural'?

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Tirea Aean

Quote from: `Eylan Ayfalulukanä on November 02, 2010, 08:38:02 PM
If stacking modal verbs doesn't seem right, what is/might be wrong? Is a question of breaking some rule I'm missing, or is it something more stylistic or 'cultural'?

probably mostly me not being used to doing it. dont think its wrong until its proven wrong, but the same can be said the other way: its not right without proof either i guess

'Oma Tirea

This might be worthy of note...

For me, I am seeing double-modal patterns with zene/zenke on the inside to seem a bit funky and unusual, as Tirea Aean pointed out, but not impossible.

I can even see a maximalist example to be possible and make sense, just so long as zen(k)e is in the front: Oe zivene tsivun fmivi kivan nivew sngivä'i tsakem sivi...

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I see no reason why it shouldn't be possible provided the phrase makes sense syntactically. Reasonable seeming examples:

tsun oe nivew ke tivaron
new oe zivene tsakem sivi
txo ______ tsakrr tsivun oe zivene tsakem sivi
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Tirea Aean

where are we getting could and should from?

we dont have would could should?

anyway yeah i would agree with Purple here.

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We don't have would and could, in my example where I used "could" that was a simple conditional (or subjunctive in na'vi) form of tsun/can which is best translated into English as "could". That said, I am a fan of using tsivun for could generally and had been for zivene being should too until I discovered that "lu X-ru tìkin a" can also be used for obligations.
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Quote from: kewnya txamew'itan on November 03, 2010, 02:44:18 AM
I see no reason why it shouldn't be possible provided the phrase makes sense syntactically. Reasonable seeming exampels:

tsun oe nivew ke tivaron
new oe zivene tsakem sivi
txo ______ tsakrr tsivun oe zivene tsakem sivi

There is the other half of my point on how zene/zenke can make sense if used more internally.  Irayo....

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