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Re: THEORY ago (was: Most common irregular verbs?)

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 12:46
On 1/17/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> BTW How do Conlangs handle 'ago'?
The Okaikiar version of "ten years ago" is literally "ten years until us", where the "until" is conveyed by the temporal marker and allative case on the pronoun. Similarly, "ten years from now" is "ten years since us". -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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