Re: OT: Citation forms of words, and the cynicism required to study Georgian [was Re: sorta OT: cases: please help...]
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 9, 2001, 22:58 |
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Quoting Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...>:
> And speaking of Georgian, today was the second round of the Moscow
> Linguistic Olympics, and we had a Georgian problem there - it was
> hideous! What kind of prefixes are these gv- and m-, and a root
> like _akvs_! Ouch!
We haven't gotten that far yet, but I believe that "gv-" and "m-"
are indirect object agreement markers on the verb. Don't know
how they work, though.
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