Re: demonstratives
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 19, 2001, 19:47 |
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> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, James O'Connell wrote:
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> > >As I'm doing my demonstrative system in elenyo right now, I was
>wondering
> > >how other people had done this. Do you have seperate demonstratives to
> > >demonstrative pronouns or are they combined? Do they show case etc?
Tairzazh have the two demonstrative pronouns _a_ "this" and _li_ "that".
Just like the rest of Tairezazh's fairly boring pronouns they're inflected
for case and number as if they where regular nouns, so one sees forms
sentences like this:
As ta neir
This-ACC I like
I like this
Tan azgek liner
we search-PAST those-DAT
We search for those (the verb _azg_ "search" demanding the thing searched
for to be in the dative for no very good reason)
They can also be used in phrases like _a dazer_ "this man", but in this case
they're not declined - "these men" is _a dazren_. In both of these uses
they're stressed, but the same elements also occure as unstressed in some
lexicalized items like _anév_ lit "this day", but in "contemporary"
Tairezazh meaning simply "now" and _lited_ lit "that place", used for
"there".
Andreas
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