Re: CHAT: R: Italian Particles
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 18, 2000, 11:41 |
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At 16:51 18.4.2000 +1200, andrew wrote:
>Hmm. I'm just wondering if this feature could be adapted for Brithenig
>(Celtic substrata and all that) and how.
Which would make'em an areal feature, since I just adopted them for Maneyx! :-)
They provide a way to convert a V2 language into a VSO language. In Old
Norse one often finds a pleonastic adverb (mostly _nú_ or _þá_) which
induces a kind of virtual VSO. I've been playing around with the idea of
turning these adverbs into tense marking prefixes...
Let's see:
ék -> e
þú -> u
hann -> a
hún -> u
það -> a
vér/vit -> e
þér/þið -> e
þeir/þær -> a
þau -> u
Natlangy weird enough! :-)
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson
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