Re: Person marking on nouns?
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 23, 2004, 6:20 |
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On Sunday, February 22, 2004, at 04:41 PM, Christian Thalmann wrote:
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> Does anyone know whether this is legal in Latin? |Loquere, nam
> servus tuus audio|?
In theory, yes - but I think it unlikely that the 1st person singular
would simply be signalled as the last morpheme.
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> At least that oughta be possible in Latin: |Loquere, nam ego
> servus tuus audio|...
That's more likely IMO.
Ray
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