Re: Phenomena

At 03:06 03/02/2000 -0800, you 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?

That is one of the advantages to not having verbs:

la an tárá    [there is] rain.
la ne tárá    [there are] drops.

'la' means that whatever follows exists.
an is the collective plural and ne is the distributive plural.


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Sylvia Sotomayor                                  sylvia1@ix.netcom.com
Kélen can be found at http://users.lmi.net/sylvia/Kelen/kelen.html

"In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added
to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax..."
John Simon, Paradigms Lost