Re: Memories

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:49:30PM -0500, Roger Mills wrote:
> H.S.Teoh wrote:
>
> > I learned that memory-related terms in Ebisédian are quite complicated.
>
> These are very nice (i.e. good, not nice in the legalistic sense)
> distinctions, which Kash also has, up to a point...
Thanks.

[snip]
> > First of all, there's memory itself, which is of (at least) two distinct
> > kinds:
> > 1) _suPi'_ [su"p_hi] - memory in general, usually short-term memory or
> >    memory of trivia.
> > 2) _Pee'i_ ["p_h&:?i] - hindsight, memorial, experiential memory:
[...]
> Kash _nimbur_ takes its objects in different cases for this distinction:
Nice way of handling it.

[...]
> Causative rundimbur 'remind s.o. of s.t.' at present only takes dat/acc
> objects, but I think that might need revising for e.g. 'you remind me of my
> father' where 'father' probably ought to be in the genitive. (your sa'Pi)
What are s.o. and s.t.?

[...]
> _cuta_ 'forget' has the same distinction, using resp. dat/acc or genitive.
> raç, macuta poreñi 'damn, I forgot the wine' (poren/acc +ni)
> talunda ta micuta lerowi yu 'we will never forget that day'
> ne makota re anjayi yacuta iyeni 'I told him he ought to forget (all about)
> her' (iyeni-- spec. female, genitive
Hmm, I forgot about verbs of forgetting. :-) I guess I should go coin them
now, before I forget. :-P


T

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