Re: do be do be do

On Mon, 24 May 1999 20:02:33 -0500 Carlos Thompson
<carlos_thompson@...> writes:
>In Spanish "to do" is merged with "to make".  You could also thing
>like
>"hacer" actually means "to make" and that it is used in the sense of
>"to do"
>due to the lack of other word.  What I mean is that, if you don't have
>a
>wildcard verb, questions like "what are you doing" will find a way...
> probably I don't even know what I mean :-( )
>
>-- Carlos Th
In Rokbeigalmki "what are you doing" is a verbless sentence:

_hawa eza:?_

[ha?wa eza:]

It's literally like saying "what are you -ing?"

what you+(present-immediate)

It can also mean "what are you being?"

Other verbless constructions are:

_pawa eza:?_ = where (are) you?
_wa'pawa eza:?_ = where are you (go)ing to?


-Stephen (Steg)

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