Re: going without "without"

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.