Re: Bishop's poem about prepositions

On 1/21/06, Adam Walker <carrajena@...> wrote:
> This came to me on another list and I thought
> "TRANSLATIONS EXERCISE!"
> > And yet I wondered, 'What should he come
> > Up from out of in under for?'
I'm not going to try to translate the whole
poem, but since gzb can have serial
postpositions, I'll try this last line or two.

There needs to be a head to the whole
postposition series, though; I'll use
"tiqw" (chair).

moqj sru-kq-van kun-van, hoqnx {?gaxn noq rq
tyn txij tyn rqnx srq runx-pq-zox.}

moqj    sru-kq-van     kun-van,     hoqnx {?kujm   noq  o
however want-1-V.STATE know-V.STATE that    reason Q.WH to

tiqw   tx-i-j        tyn   rq-nx         s-rq      runx-pq-zox.}
chair  under-at-near place out.of-inside above-out go-3-V.ACT

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/gzb/gzb.htm