Zesefde Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> ta 2002.08.27. her 13:31:57 -5h:
> Quoting Mau Rauszer <maurauser@...>:
> Do all nouns have male and female forms? If so, why? One would
> think that this is more a property of adjectives agreeing in
> gender with a noun.
Technically they can. Male forms are usually used for living things (in the usual meaning)
but cats see world as a *living* one and so the elements can be either male or
female. They think all duat, darkness is the child or manifestation of Duat,
the concept/"god" of darkness created by Ingonyama from the soul of Wiyanyama
in the beginning.
> > LW verbs have three persons and numbers.
>
> Is possession on nouns marked on the possessor or the possessum?
On the possessor.
> If the possessum, do the verbal endings have any relationship
> to the possessive endings (in many languages they do).
No.
> > Tenses : historical past - past perfect - past - present - future - future
> > perfect.
>
> Is the future perfect considered a tense for mophological
> reasons?
Probably...
> > Aspects: Habitual - Continous
>
> These aspects usually pattern together in languages. A more
> common split is perfective / imperfective.
Yeah but there they are different.
> > Object: Intransitive and transitive.
> > Voice*: Active and passive.
> > Certainty*: supposation - hearsay - experience.
>
> To clarify: is "object" an agreement marker for transitivity, or
> the actual marker of direct or indirect objects? And are the
> markers for voice and evidentiality exclusive with object
> marking? (If so, this is somewhat similar to Phaleran: transitivity
> marking is dropped when a valence changing marker is added, with
> the exception of causatives.)
It just indicates transitivity. They don't distinguish direct and indirect iobjects in the verb.
> > Voice: Passive: -lu. Used when the action happens to the subject.
>
> Is there an antipassive? How about an instrumental-focuser?
Antipassive? It's probably just the unsigned "normal" form.
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