Re: me and my languages

In a message dated 9/9/01 10:53:23 PM, yl112@CORNELL.EDU writes:

<< I hope you get well soon.  :-( >>

    Thank you.  :)

<<Pardon my ignorance; is "beneficiary" a technical term and what does it
signify exactly?>>

    Maybe the technical term is "benefactive".  It's where you use the word
"for", as in "this gift is for you", or "I eat for you".

<<You're doing better than I would; I've never attempted one.  :-)
Well, say you wanted to emphasize "for you" *and* "because of me."  Wouldn'
t there have to be some way to connecting "for" with "you" and "because of"
  with "me" (to use a badly made up example), instead of mixing up the two?
   I guess you could do that with some sort of morphological marker...?>>

    Emphasizing both?  Hmm...  Maybe instead of pre/postpositions they can be
affixes.  I can see what you mean by word order with the verb, though.  Oh, I
didn't leave a place for adverbs...  So much to do!  So little time!  I've a
certain portrait of a certain lady to attend to...

<<Sorry if I'm making sense,>>

How dare you make sense!  ;)

-Dave

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