Re: A new translation exercise (was: lexicons)
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 1, 1999, 8:31 |
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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_.
Irina
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