Re: yet another new lang sketch (sorry)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 31, 1999, 18:53 |
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"J. Barefoot" wrote:
> >What's 'telic'?
>
> Carried out completely.
Like "beat to death" as the telic of "beat"? Old Watakassi' has
something like that, indicated by the suffix -(h)e', but nowadays, it's
become a fossilized part of stems.
> Yes, it's SOV. No switching to show tense, sorry.
Can word order be changed for other purposes? Since you have
case-endings, I'd assume that it can be?
> Mixed ergative/accustive, and the ergative form happens to be the same as
> the genitive form. The subject of this sentence is in the relative case
> because it has a direct object.
What is relative case, if not ergative?
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