Re: Verb-initial languages
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 14, 2003, 11:39 |
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Joe scripsit:
> In Irish, |tá| is the copula, and it goes first.
My understanding is that the Irish copula is "is", and that "tá" rather
asserts predication.
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To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
--_The Hobbit_
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