Re: going without "without"

On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Matt Pearson wrote:

> Adam Parrish wrote:
>
> >         tvoseth ku"ns ty gvecintetho kho"th.
> >         tvos-eth ku"ns ty  gve-cint-eth-o    kho"th
> >         old-PP   woman NOM LACK-stick-PP-ADV walk
> >         The old woman walks sticklessly.
>
> This is a great suggestion, but I don't think it would work for
> Tokana, since it doesn't really fit with the character of the
> language.  Also, whatever strategy I adopt will have to work
> for clausal adjuncts as well as nominal ones.  "She left without
> saying goodbye", for example.  "She left saying-goodbye-less-ly"
> is a tad too polysynthetic for my tastes...
>
        Aw.  This *could* work, and I think it does for Kusthu", in any
case:

        tadineth si gvesjaketho nga nythte.
        tad-ineth si  gve-sjak-eth-o  nga nyth-te.
        follow-FP GEN LACK-say-PP-ADV ACC leave-3A

        (with _tadineth_ being a common way to say "goodbye")

        . . . which would translate more as "She left sayinglessly of
goodbye."  Heh.

Later,
Adam
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