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Re: Sundry thoughts (was: Re: THEORY nouns and cases)

From:<jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, April 29, 2004, 20:36
Douglas Koller, Latin & French scripsit:

> Likewise, "See ya, Mom. I'm off to the movies and'll be back at > 1:00AM." "Wrrrronnng!" ("Wrongo" sounds better, I guess.)
Well, "Wrong!" can be used when the interlocutors are not equivalent in power, but that is a special case.
> Does "ba" really "front" the direct object? To be sure, it brings it > closer to the head of the sentence, but doesn't necessarily afford > the emphasis I normally assocoiate with fronted direct objects.
Right. I was using the word "front" merely in the sense of "bring to the front", without any connotation of special semantics. My contention was that you *cannot* use "ba" to bring just any old direct object to the front.
> Which brings us to the word "disposal". I was going to respectfully > beg to differ, but after consulting the all-knowing Li & Thompson > (which, I presume, is where you got the term from),
Yup. -- Where the wombat has walked, John Cowan <jcowan@...> it will inevitably walk again. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

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Douglas Koller, Latin & French <latinfrench@...>