Re: what should i call this?

On 3/23/07, hotaru.firefly@gmail.com <hotaru.firefly@...> wrote:
> On Friday 23 March 2007 5:16 pm, Jim Henry (Jim Henry
> <jimhenry1973@...>) wrote:
> > Can you give examples of what meaning-transformation
> > "-ca" causes in other verbs?
>
> ok... here's another one...
> toner=be in front of or ahead of
> şes=2nd person singular pronoun
> cem=1st person singular pronoun
>
> toner cem şes. = we are facing each other or moving toward each other.
> tonerca cem şes. = you are facing or moving toward me, but i may or may not be
> facing you or moving toward you.
OK... can I guess at how -ca would affect some
other verbs with the same (you/me) arguments?

1. We are talking with each other.
1-ca. You are talking to me; I may or may not talk back.

2. We are showing affection to each other.
2-ca. You are forcing your affections on me.

3. We are throwing water balloons at each other.
3-ca. You throw water balloons at me.

If this is how it generally works, then I would say
that -ca is an un-reciprocal marker.  It's unusual,
I suspect, to have the reciprocal form of the verb
be the simpler, unmarked form and make them
non-reciprocal with an affix, but possibly not
unnatural.

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Jim Henry
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