Re: USAGE: Verbs and verb compounds

Padraic Brown wrote:
>
> I like that!  Onbes the cat yonder board, lyen.  I'll have to steal that
> for a language, some day.  I guess it could get a bit dicey with more than
> one preposition: Offput the cat yonder board, onlyen.
Ooooh, I like it too!  The Teonim would be up to such a thing.  With
the suppression of the copula, they practically already have such a
verbal preposition:

        On the board the cat.

Well, not really.  Maybe I'll steal it for Nenddeyly, although I think
Matthew should lay prior claim to it.

Teonaht constructions:  "on the board the cat, with lying."  Or:
"The cat, with lying on the board he."

The cat, with lying who, from yonder board offput you!

A little clumsy.  The cat offput you withlying whom on yonder board!

Sally