Draft Reference

Event Nominals

These chapters are generated from the current grammar notes. They are descriptive working material and can keep growing with the corpus.

Source: Grammar/en/nouns.md

1. Event Nominals

Event nominals are how Blaken expresses what other languages do with subordinate clauses.

Turn verbs into events, not actions controlled by agents.

1.1. Pattern

event + relation marker

1.2. Examples

→ _driving is possible (for this body)_

  • I can drive

→ _intention toward banana-eating is present_

  • I want to eat bananas

→ _intention exists → letter-writing → by you_

  • I want you to write a letter