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Re: THEORY: two questions

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 28, 2000, 10:17
At 20:27 27/03/00 -0600, you wrote:
> >Another thing I've been toying around with for an as-yet-unnamed >sketch: Mark the verb to indicate the number of the subject and object, >and whether or not plural subjects and objects are acting collectively >(together) or distributively (one at a time). A sample paradigm made >up on the spot: > >-0 "singular subj acts on sing obj" >-nga "plural subj acts together on sing obj" >-ngei "plural subj acts one-by-one on sing obj" > >-i "singular subj acts on collection of obj" >-inga "plural subj acts together on collection of obj" >-ingei "plural subj acts one-by-one on collection of obj" >
Hey! That's a nice idea! Why is it always the others who get the best ideas?! :((( In fact it seems so nice and naturalistic that I wouldn't be surprised that it's already used in a natlang... Christophe Grandsire |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G. "Reality is just another point of view." homepage : http://rainbow.conlang.org (ou : http://www.bde.espci.fr/homepages/Christophe.Grandsire/index.html)