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

On 1/17/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> But, with the best will in the world, I still cannot fathom how 'ago',
> in its modern use, can be analyzed as an adjective. So far no one has
> explained this analysis.
I think the idea is that "three years ago", the "ago" is telling you
what kind of "years" are under discussion, and the adverbial
relationship is merely implied.  I could be wrong.  It's not a very
good analysis, in any event. :)

> Meanwhile, it's interesting seeing how this is done Conlangs. How, just
> out interest, does Esperanto do it?
With antaŭ (=antaux if you can't see the last symbol; it's a U with a
breve), literally "before".  So "Three days go" is "antaŭ tri tagoj".

A more interesting question to me is this: how does Lojban do it?


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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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