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Re: THEORY: Auxiliaries

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Monday, December 30, 2002, 3:24
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Well, it was written with two words. Also, whether it is written in one word or > two doesn't change much of my analysis, since "forever" is quite clearly > identical to "for ever" :)) .
Well, "forever" is treated as a single unit, similar to "always" (which itself is derived also from the compound "all ways")
> Interesting construction. I knew Uatakassi was clearly agglutinative, but now > it looks more polysynthetic to me...
Yep. You can get some monstrous constructions, too, in a single verb. :-) Some dialects even allow patients *and* instrumentals to be incorporated at the same time, so that you could have a single complex verb form meaning, for example, "He killed the man with a knife" (faftalakusluiauintas - past-knife-man-kill-he/she, or perhaps flakusaftaluiauintas, i.e., past-man-knife-kill-he/she, I'm not sure which order they'd go in) -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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