Re: Project 55 (was: I'm back)
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 31, 2006, 8:58 |
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Henrik Theiling girs'epset':
| I assume that sociative I [in Chukchee] is for equal partners while
sociative II is
| for sub-part or attached pieces, right?
Wrong. Volodin et al. alternatively interpretes those forms as a specific
POS - "predicative". Sociative I is then a predicative of "have"-type, and
soc. II - a dependent predicative (similar to a converb/verbal adverb).
ObConlang: P55 lacks those fancy cases, anyway.
| **Henrik
-- Yitzik