Re: Quryak (Was:Re: Another Orthography Question)

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Matt Pearson wrote:

> Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>
> >> What is "lative"?  And what case is the direct object in?
> >
> >Lative is the opposite of locative; locative indicates position in
> >Eastern Khanty, while Lative indicates motion towards without a
> >postposition.
>
> Why do you call it "lative" rather than "allative" - or "dative", for
> that matter?
Hmmm.good question.  I'm just using what Szabo used in his Eatern Ostyak
[Khanty] Chrestomathy.

>
> >The direct object is in the nominative, and verbs are like in Hungarian,
> >no distinction is made btw. transitive and intransitive.
>
> I don't understand what you mean here...
Hungarian has only one class of verbs; ie. no distinction is made btw.
transitive and intransitive verbs.  I don't know how to explain it; maybe
if you'd specify what you don't understand?


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