> From: Carlos Eugenio Thompson (EDC)
>
> On Last Metal of Faith of first Red Cat, yl-ruil wrote:
>
> > I've just come across a knotty problem. How would your languages say
> > something like "she teaches languages to children"? Most of mine would
> > probably use a double accusative, or maybe put "children" in the dative
> > and "languages" in the accusative. This would then mean that
> "she teaches
> > children" would also use the dative for "children".
> >
> Chleweyish have more than one way to say that.
As does amman iar:
She teaches languages: alielle elivas in ier erasphainiel
aliel-e elivas in ier-0 er-asphaino-ie-l
she:ERG does THM languages:ABS AGT:teach:AGT/THM:ACTN
Here the predicate inflections exhibit an Agent(She)/Theme(languages)
paradigm
She teaches children : alielle elivas an nithnair erasphainon
aliel-e elivas an nithnair-0 er-asphaino-o-n
She-ERG does PAT children:ABS AGT:teach:AGT/PAT:ACTN/PROC
Here the predicate inflections exhibit an Agent(She)/Patient(children)
paradigm
She teaches children languages : alielle elivas an nithnair erasphainon
ierren
aliel-e elivas an nithnair-0 er-asphaino-o-n ier-en
She:ERG does PAT children:ABS AGT:teach:AGT/PAT:ACTN/PROC languages:DAT
This is the canonical form of a ditransitive used when 'children' is the
Topic and 'languages' is the Focus
She teaches languages to children : alielle ier ertholasphainiel an
nithnairen elivas
aliel-e ier-0 er-tol-asphaino-ie-l an nithnair-en elivas
She-ERG languages:ABS AGT:APPL:teach:AGT/THM:ACTN PAT children:DAT does
This is the applicative form of a ditransitive used when 'languages' is the
topic and 'children' is the Focus.
David
The Gray Wizard
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