Re: question about classifiers

Matt Pearson wrote:
>
> >
> >Oooh, thanks!  I like that!  It also fixes my because- and when- clause
> >problems.
>
> You're welcome!  A couple years ago I sketched out a conlang along
> in which 'adverbial' prepositional phrases/clauses where actually
> main predicates, which took nominalised clauses as their subjects:
>
>    "I gave it to you in the house" =
>    "[My giving it to you] was-in the house"
>
> Where the verb meaning "to be in" had an 'event' agreement marker
> on it.  Unfortunately the language never went anywhere, but the
> idea has been floating around my brain every since, waiting to be
> deployed somewhere.
>
> I thought that I had originated this idea, but then a fellow linguist
> told me that Aleut allegedly works this way.  Don't know if it's
> true, though...
>
> Matt.
        Do you mind if I steal you that little idea? I'm still working on
Chasma"o"cho but my mind can't stop creating and I think I'm gonna soon
develop another new conlang. I'm too impressed by the trigger system not
to try to use it, and I'd like to put also your idea inside :) .

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