Re: THEORY: questions
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 22:05 |
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Markus Miekk-oja / Torpet wrote:
> 'sataa saavista kaatamalla' (this is a lot more common)
> [it] rains (by) pouring from a bucket.
>
> rains bucket.(from) pouring.(by)
> the pouring(by) is actually a third infinitive with some case-ending whose
> name I'm too sleepy to recall.
> (Ok, this interlinear was bad, but I'm really really tired).
>
That case would be the allative (-lla).
Votian would say
satab pankoilta
rain-3psg-PRES buckets-ABLATIVE
it rains from buckets
probably.
---frank