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Re: OT: Citation forms of words, and the cynicism required to study Georgian [was Re: sorta OT: cases: please help...]

From:Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 12, 2001, 12:40
S'mae,
Ysgrifennodd Thomas R. Wier:
> > 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.
They might be, and they might not. In that puzzle, they seemed to come out as pronominal prefixes, but that can't imply anything, for sure - they might be such markers for all what it's worth :-) I just meant how un-vocalic Georgian is! My languages (all that I've tried) seemed to tend to C(S)V(C) structure, I guess it just appeals to my lámatyávë :-) Hwyl, Pavel

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Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>Citation forms of words, and the cynicism required to study Georgian