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Re: going without "without"

From:Matt Pearson <mpearson@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 17, 1999, 15:51
Adam Parrish wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Jim Grossmann wrote: > > > 1. Could you use an adverbial construction: The woman walks stickless? > > This might be more awkward with heavy noun phrases, but this obstacle is not > > insurmountable. > > Oooooh, wow, I like this. Mind if I borrow (steal) it for > Kusthu"? It'd go a little something like this: > > 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... Matt.