Re: G'amah antipassive

Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:

>> ad'ul    lli-nhach bu
>> AP.comer AD  gato  APO
>> 'the cat eats'
>
>Interesting that you used English glosses the first time, and Spanish
>glosses the second time.  :-)  I'm assuming AD and AI mean "artículo
>[definite]" and "artículo [indefinite]"?

Ah... yes. See what happens when you're half-asleep and
cut-and-pasting inside a room at 35 degrees C (that's
95 F for you :). The articles and particles are a very
important part of the complicated G'amah syntax. I've
set my goal in using very little or no inflection, and
making extensive (re-)use of prepositions, even on verb
roots (examples will follow).

>Greenlandic (IIRC) uses the commitative case, some languages use
>instrumentals or other cases.
Oh, then my intuition must be in the right track -- I had
thought of using the preposition _j'a_ 'with':

ad'ul  lli-nhach bu  j'a- hoh
AP.eat AD  cat   APO with mouse
'the cat eats, mice'* (more or less; note there's no indication
of number, partitive, whatever).

Thanks for the info on concord.

In a separate post I'll discuss particle usage, so that y'all
can give an opinion on this new creature of mine.


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