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CHAT: Idioms in interlinearizing (was: Re: CHAT: Umberto Eco andEsperanto)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 15, 1999, 0:30
taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> I believe the dots are used when something is implicit, a part of the lexeme, > and not the result of affixation and friends
Yeah, that's something like the practice I use, for instance, _ya'nistas_ = _ya'nis-tas_ = be.important-3rd.person.singular.animate = (s)he is important. -- Happy that Nation, - fortunate that age, whose history is not diverting -- Benjamin Franklin http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files/ http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ #: 18656696 AIM screen-name: NikTailor