Re: Genitives NPs as Relative Clauses
From: | Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> |
Date: | Thursday, November 15, 2001, 20:08 |
Ar 09:25 15/11/01 -0500, bhac Muke Tever le scríobh chugam:
>You might actually say:
>
> nirai sci waidjitcos mí
> /ni"rAI "stsI wAIdzIt"tsos "mi:/
>
> nir.ai sci waidj.ic .c .os mí
> man.INTR be-3SG see .TR-3SG.GER.GEN me.ACC
>
> "it is the man of his seeing me" / "it is the man that sees me"
>
>But I'm a little rusty on the grammar to be sure.
I was thinking of doing something like that, but it struck me as being rather
unwieldy for the language. I can see where you're coming from though.
K.
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