Re: Phenomena

Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...> wrote:


>I dont know a better term for this, but how do you all say things like
>"it's raining" or "it's dripping" without an actual specified agent to do
>that action?

Impersonal sentences, I think they're called. In Draseléq
I do the same as in Spanish -- a verb in the third person
singular, with no subject. (What does one do in French,
use _il_?).

I can think of several possibilities for "it's raining":

- Do as Tagalog does (since it's kind of a model for
  trigger languages, and Saalángal in particular, I
  guess). What does it do?
- "There is raining". Well, that's impersonal too...
- "Here has raining", "Now has raining"?
- "Rain is (over) here".

What about that?


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