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> Onderwerp: Re : Re: Tlvn, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
> Datum: woensdag 15 september 1999 15:51
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> Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 15/09/99 14:27:22 , Rob a =E9crit :
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> > Still there is reason to use the hyphen here. "ti-nk'yap-a" is
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> > one word.=20
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> THAT is interesting !
> i would call this a "tranfert".
> a transfert is for instance :
> "la lune =E9clipse le soleil > l'=E9clipse solaire/lunaire".
> noun "soleil" or "lune" become adjectives.
> then you can "activate" into :
> "l'=E9clipse est solaire/lunaire"
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> "the coyote goes > the going is-coyote-aire".
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> what do you think ?
Could very well be.
> if it doesn't work, i try something else.
> let's see...
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> > ti- is not a topic tag, that's -k0a (I'm doing this by memory, the
form
> > could be different)
> > ti- (realis) is opposite of k0o- irrealis and marks aspect.
> > -a is 3rd person, opposed to -an 1st person
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> yes. so topicizing isn't it.
> i try for transfert.
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> > > english neither : hunt / hunt
> > > "verb" and "noun" are beyond morphology.
> > > i think we're not discussing the same topic.
> > >
> > English does. An English speaker must use the verb 'to be', or anoth=
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> > verbshow noature, behaviour etc..
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> yes. but conversely ti-nyakplak-a or whatever ti-coyote-a is
morphologically
> a verb but semantically not.
That's what I thought and what I'm doubting the more I think of it. Is it
semantically not? Who says it isn't? I, because it isn't in my language? =
In
howfar is my perception of the world a part of the problem?
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> mathias
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