Re: A new translation exercise (was: lexicons)

In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.990401093107.912E-100000@...>,
Irina Rempt <ira@...> writes
>On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
>
>> John Fisher wrote:
>> > Cwand inye         caro-lorye      pani   lisnien,
>> > when  speaker-ATR  three-grand-ATR father be.young-person
>> >
>> > en
>> > person
>>
>> Why is person indicated seperately, if _lisnien_ already means
>> "person"?  Is there some reason or is htis just an idiosyncracy of that
>> verb?
>
>I think (John, please correct me if I'm wrong) that _en_ is already
>the subject of the second clause, _he_.
Yup, that's exactly it.  Thanks.

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