Re: THEORY: Auxiliaries
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 30, 2002, 3:24 |
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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)
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