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Re: Phenomena

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Friday, March 3, 2000, 0:00
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? --Pablo Flores http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/index.html http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/draseleq.html