Re: Copulas
| From: | Edward Heil <edheil@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 15, 1999, 21:36 |
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On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:07:01 -0800, Sally Caves scaves@FRONTIERNET.NET>
wrote:
>I get the strong feeling that "zero copula" is one of the most popular
conlang
>features.
>Teonaht has it, and in my perusal of other's conlangs, I see it all
over the
>place, like
>the ergative. How right am I? <G>
I haven't done any fully formed conlangs yet, but how can you resist
ergatives once you know about them? I mean, come ON! They are JUST SO
COOL!
Zero copula seems less shiny to me, cause I'm familiar with it from
ancient Greek...
Ed
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