Re: Katanda/Nasendi (was Re: basic morphemes of a loglang)
| From: | Robert Jung <robertmjung@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 1, 2003, 1:40 |
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No, I did not mean it that way. I meant that Latenkwa marks the argument structure
on the verb, so you distinguish 'to speak' and 'to say/to tell' with a suffix
(in this case) since you say 'He-NOM spoke about the problem-DAT' but 'He-NOM
told the joke-ACC to us-DAT'. Know what I mean? Having suffixes for different
semantic categories, although interesting, is kind of redundant - if it was all
that important the word would be a compound.
BTW, Does 'nominative' mean 'being a noun' or 'non-accusative case'?
--Robert