Re: McGuffey Corpus Project Begun

On Monday 20 December 2004 13:19, Isaac Penzev wrote:
> Gary Shannon wrote:
> > > > http://fiziwig.com/korpu001.txt
>
> I find this idea very productive. I'll try my next project on the same
> material when I have time. Unfortuntely, the text needs some adaptations to
> the peculiarities of the lg. if the it has different typology than English.
> Thus, e.g., I see the verb "to see" in the very first
> sentence. It behaves oddly in one of my nameless embryoconlangs (#36):
> recepient stands in Dative!
>
> Lit.: boy seen me-DAT
>
> But in general it is a very useful tool.
>
> -- Yitzik
I found it very helpful, too, despite 'see' which is strange in Kelen, too.
And despite modals already introduced in sentence 4! But it's been amusing to
figure out how to say all these basic things in Kelen. Thank you.

-S

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