Re: The translation exercise in Valdyan
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 2, 1999, 8:00 |
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On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, John Fisher wrote:
> Irina Rempt <ira@...> writes
> >vestie... cyne... cyne... farie: the usual way to express a sequence
> >of events in a story.
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> EA similarly uses "lacorgaw"="before it all", "yafgaw"="after that"
> and "lacafgaw"="after it all", although they are all adverbials.
Well, mine are really adverbials as well though I glossed them as
locatives. There's no real difference; a locative or instrumental can
be used adverbially, and if that happens often enough it's "frozen"
and voila! it's an adverb. It happened to some datives, like _cyne"_,
which is not even recognized as a declined noun any more.
Irina
Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastinay.
irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (myself)
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