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Re: THEORY: Betreft: Re: THEORY: two questions

From:Rob Nierse <rnierse@...>
Date:Friday, March 24, 2000, 14:51
I'll give some detailed examples monday.
But think of this:
to kill
to massacre

the second verb involves more people (subject and object).
So we can speak of some form of plurality and the stems are different.


>>> Christophe Grandsire <Christophe.Grandsire@...> 03/24 3:39 >>>
At 15:06 24/03/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Reminds me of some languages in North America that have suppletion >of verbstems depending on the subject being singular or plural . >That would make it even more exotic ;) >
Do you mean that they have different verb stems for singular and plural subject? How weird! Are the two stems related at least? If not, then it's a really strange system... Maybe I'm gonna steal it for Itakian :)) . Christophe Grandsire |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G. "Reality is just another point of view." homepage : http://rainbow.conlang.org (ou : http://www.bde.espci.fr/homepages/Christophe.Grandsire/index.html)