Re: demonstratives
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 19, 2001, 21:56 |
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, jesse stephen bangs wrote:
> These all go in the same inflectional slot and are parallel, which is to
> say that they can't be used together. These prefixes are also parallel to
> the numerals, which means that Yivríndil can't say things like 'these
> three men.'
What do you say when you want to say it, then? I'd imagine something
like "three men, that is, these" or "these men, three of them".
Valdyan has only demonstrative adverbs, _jat_ "here" and _jom_
"there", which also serve adjectivally as "this" and "that". They're
very easily compounded; _ayat_, for instance, "every here", means
"around here" and _sayom_ "some there" means "somewhere, but not
here".
Irina
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