Re: question about classifiers

Patrick Dunn wrote, in answer to Nik Taylor:

>> How do you handle prepositions?
>
>That's my weak point, actually.  I considered two posibilities: the first
>is the adjectival preposition, which can be a transitive verb with two
>arguments:
>
>ngk -- "to be in"
>ngk-qa-lu
>to be in - I - manufactured enclosure.  "I"m in the house."
>
>As for adverbial prepositions, I don't know
How about this?  Have a classifier/pronoun that refers back to
previously mentioned verbs (or, more preciesly, the events to which
they refer).  Thus:

   give-I-it-you                "I gave it to you"
   be:in-event-m.enclosure      "the event is in the house"

   give-I-it-you   be:in-event-m.enclosure
   "I gave it to you.  That event (= I gave it to you) was in the house"
   i.e. "I gave it to you in the house"

Matt.