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

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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