Re: Nineteen-year-old language sketch unearthed!
| From: | Amanda Babcock Furrow <langs@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 28, 2007, 3:03 |
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 07:50:35PM -0700, veritosproject@GMAIL.COM wrote:
> More than most do at that age. And 1988-lang was still a fairly
> impressive language for that time. Did you translate that into
> linguistic terms just now (aorist and such)? Otherwise, where did you
> find such without Wikipedia and such?
I sure did translate! You should see the original descriptions. Here,
I'll put some in:
'Qualitative marker; "this is what it does" or indefinite time' is the
original description for the particle known as Aorist.
'Marks a thing as an amount of a thing, such as water, rather than
singular or plural' is the original description for "mass noun".
At the other extreme, "should" and "can" were the original glosses for
the particles I dressed up as "obligatory" and "abilitative".
Thanks for your interest!
Amanda