Re: Ergative?
| From: | Irina Rempt <irina@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 27, 2001, 9:56 |
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On Thursday 27 September 2001 06:53, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> Instrumental or comitative, one or the other...
Comitative would only mean that he had the sword with him
("accompanied by a sword"), and would say nothing about whether he
actually killed the dragon with it.
For a discussion of this in Valdyan, which I won't repeat here, see
"The old woman without a stick":
http://www.valdyas.org/irina/valdyas/taal/grammar/woman_without_a_stick.html
Irina
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