Re: Reflexive possessives & the like

Irina Rempt wrote:

> In Valdyan:
>
> Nanie       le.arnien     lay   lei arlat
> mother-loc him.self's-loc about him speak.truth-PRS-3s
>
> "He-1 speaks truthfully to him-2 about his-1 mother"
[plus a number of interesting semantic variants]

Well, I don't have the vocab to take part in these things,
but the Gz. word for "true" is _yyin_ /Ij@n/. Literally it
means "coming from time", which is a way of saying that
something actually happened, where _yy_ /jI/ means "time"
and _-in_ /@n/ means "coming from". The negative, false, is
_nagyyin_ /n&gIj@n/. I don't yet have affixes to form
"truth" and "falsehood".

Adrian.
http://www.flinders.edu.au