Béu : Chapter 10

The house cell

In the Christian religion, for the average adherent, the hour spent in church on Sunday represents the main obligation. In terms of time anyway. Of course most Christians support their church financially and often their devotion results in some socialising with their fellows believers. This socializing usually has the aim of doing good-works but of course people enjoy socializing and these meetings together often supply moral support with respect to personal problems and probably there is mutual re-enforcing of beliefs as well a feeling of "solidarity" with respect to life's problems and the rest of the world in general.

In contra-distinction, for the average adherent of béu, timewise the biggest sacrifice is comprised of privately reading the body of knowledge that is considered "canonical". Many also go in for other sacrifices such as dietary restrictions and prescribed daily excercise routines. Also many others volunteer time and money to the many activities which are proscribed by béu to promote personal happiness and social cohesion.

Other sections will go into detail about the duties touched on above. However this section is only about how the requirement to spend a certain time each day, reading the body of knowledge that béu considers "canonical" * affects the architecture of the typical béu followers place of residence.

The above shows the plan view of a "cell". This is a room (usually one cell is recommended per family dwelling) in which the reading of the "canonical" works is done. It is a requirement that the cell is perfectly square and that it have no windows. The only lighting permitted is two oil lanterns fitted over either shoulder of the "reader" to cast light on the lectern on which rests the "tome" being read.

Behind the door ....

3) now one of the 16 markers shown below is added. 16 is quite a respectable number, as far as tense/aspect markers go.^*

chapter 1

1 ..... The sounds of béu 2 ..... Some interjections 3 ..... Consonant clusters 3.1 Word initial 3.2 Word medial 3.3 Word final 4 ..... Plurals and duals 5 ..... Thread Writing 6 ..... Numbers 6.1 Ordinal numbers 6.2 Fractional numbers 7 ..... Index

chapter 2

1 ..... Pronouns 2 ..... Building up a noun phrase (NP) 3 ..... The case system 3.1 -pi or pì 3.2 -la or lá 3.3 -ye or yè 3.4 -fi or fí 3.5 -lya or alya 3.6 -lfe or alfe 3.7 -s or sá 3.8 -ge or gé 3.9 -ho or hò 3.10 -ji or jí 3.11 -wo or wó 3.12 -n or nà 4 ..... Building up another type of NP 5 ..... 64 Adjectives 6 ..... Simple arithmetic 7 ..... Index

chapter 3

1 ..... When a noun qualifies another one 2 ..... How to bring a word into focus 3 ..... Questions 3.1 ..... How to ask a yes/no question 3.2 ..... How to ask a content question 3.3 ..... How to ask what is being done 4 ..... The 5 "specifiers" 5 ..... Some specifier - generic noun amalgamations 6 ..... The relativizers 7 ..... The R-form of the verb 7.1 ... Slot 1 7.2 ... Slot 2 7.3 ... Slot 3 8 ..... Index

chapter 4

1 ..... Copula's 1.1 ... sàu 1.2 ... láu 1.3 ... The copula of existence 2 ..... The verb complex or verb phrase 2.1 ... mazebai 2.2 ... seŋgebai 2.3 ... wepua 2.4 ... 4 suffixes -u, -va, -inda, -wan 3 ..... Index

chapter 5

1 The parish flags 2 The cremation oval 3 The sky garden 4 The parish hall 5 The town clock 6 The time of day 7 Index

chapter 6

1 ..... kolape 1.1 kolape jù 1.2 kolape tá 1.3 kolape tói 2 ..... Some linguistic terms in béu 3 ..... The parts of speech of béu 4 ..... The conditional 5 Verb chains 6 To give and to receive 6.1 The reciprocal construction 6.2 To allow or let 6.3 The passive construction 6.4 The causative construction 6.5 Who/what is responsible 7 Ambitransitive verbs 8 ..... The Calendar 9 ..... Index

chapter 7

1 ..... Word order and definiteness 2 ..... Adjectives and how they pervade other parts of speech 3 ..... Verbs and how they pervade other parts of speech 4 ................. Nouns and how they pervade other parts of speech 5 ..... A bit about adverbs 6 ..... Number of categories 7 ..... The transitivity of verbs in béu 7.1 Intransitive 7.2 Ambitransitive of type S=O 7.3 Ambitransitive verbs of type S=A and Transitive verbs 8 Index

chapter 8

1 ..... The -ana suffix 2 ..... The béu participles and the NP with the present participle core 3 ..... A discussion of English participles 4 ..... Start, Stop, Try 5 ..... Want 6 ..... The Imperative 7 ..... Verb chains 8 ..... The Subjunctive or the irrealis 9 ..... To think about 10 Some rubbish 11 ..... KENKO 12 ..... Examples of prepositions 13 .... -NI, NAI and -GO 14 ..... Getting the opposite by adding "u" 14.1 .... A prefix for adjectives 14.2 .... and a prefix for adverb 14.3 .... and a prefix for nouns 14.4 .... but an infix for verbs 15 Index

chapter 9

1 How concepts relate to parts of speech 2 ..... Word building 2.1 Word or -DAU 2.2 Person or -BU 2.3 Complex -ZA 2.4 Fellow or -PEU 2.5 Subject or -GA 2.6 Book or -LI 2.7 Tool or -GU 2.8 Machine or -NO 2.9 Belief/theory or -GAI 2.10 Wagon or -WAI 2.11 Building or -DO 2.12 Side or -KA 2.13 Area/Station or -KAU 2.14 Volume/Room or -KAI 2.15 A place/station or -HEU 2.16 A place/shop or -HA 2.17 Professional or -TAI 2.18 A container or -COI 2.19 Tradesman or -DA 2.20 Shop or -FU 2.21 Shopkeeper or -FAU 2.22 Stuff or -YO 2.23 Language or -BA 2.24 Metal or -MAI 2.25 Water or -ZE 2.26 Air/gas or -MO 2.27 Group or -BO 2.28 Member or -KE 2.29 Disease or ʔI 2.30 Fish or -PAI 2.31 Trees or -NYO 2.32 Fruit/nuts or -ZO 3 YīnYáng 3.1 Units 4 This is rubbish 5 Index

chapter 10

Diagrams to be updated

C2 ... D1 and D2 ... nús => ús ... yè = > kó ... alya = > alka

C3 ... all correct

C4 ... all correct

C5 ... all correct

C6 ... in the "calendar" ... v => f

C7 ... maybe a few things to change ....

Index

1. Introduction to Béu
2. Béu : Chapter 1 : The Sounds
3. Béu : Chapter 2 : The Noun
4. Béu : Chapter 3 : The Verb
5. Béu : Chapter 4 : Adjective
6. Béu : Chapter 5 : Questions
7. Béu : Chapter 6 : Derivations
8. Béu : Chapter 7 : Way of Life 1
9. Béu : Chapter 8 : Way of life 2
10. Béu : Chapter 9 : Word Building
11. Béu : Chapter 10 : Gerund Phrase
12. Béu : Discarded Stuff
13. A statistical explanation for the counter-factual/past-tense conflation in conditional sentences