Re: THEORY: two questions

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...

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