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Re: Verbs of Transfer and Exchange in Cherani Trade Speech

From:Tristan <kesuari@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 12:22
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Which sounds reasonable. The verb already indicates that you are heading > towards a direction. No need for a preposition to make the case even > clearer ;)))) (Itakian does kind of the contrary: there are no verbs of > movement, movement is rendered through nominal sentences with a prepositional > predicate. So "I go to Paris" is "I to Paris").
You can do that in a pompus form of English: 'I'm to Paris'. I doubt most colloquial dialects would stand it. Tristan.