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Re: Tensed Pronouns (was: Tagalog ...)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 3, 1999, 14:46
And Rosta wrote:

> Did you make that up on the fly, or is this from a project you're > actively working on?
Strictly on the fly: American as she is spoke in Cowania, *allegro moderato*.
> though the analysis says they're morphological > fusions of subject concord prefixes (or clitics) with auxiliaries.
A boringly traditional analysis! :-)
> which in /br+S/ would probably be called /mekn/.
/prAlisow/ -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)