Re: Tatari Faran and Verb Complements

tomhchappell wrote:

>--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Carsten Becker <naranoieati@B...>
>wrote:
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> > ... Is the complement
> > system Teoh uses indeed unique or is it just another
> > ANADEWISM?
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>I understand "anladiew" stands for "A Natural Language Already Does It
>Except Worse":  But, what the heck is "anlidiewISM"?
What I think is that:

ANADEW is "Another Natlang Already Does It Even/Exept Worse" (using even or
except seems to differ depending of the person)

and

ANADEWISM is simply ANADEW with the "-ism" suffix that indicates a system,
manner, or condition and forms a noun so an anadewism is simply a feature,
idea that used to be in another language in contrast with anadew that is
only an interjection

Is it this?

- Max

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