Re: Existential clauses
| From: | Rex May - Baloo <rmay@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 11, 2004, 0:53 |
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on 7/10/04 5:50 PM, Andreas Johansson at andjo@FREE.FR wrote:
> Quoting David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...>:
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>> (2) Mi gudpela. "I'm good."
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> Is that _gudpela_, by any chance, derived from "good fellow"? If so, is it
> perhaps rather a noun "good person" than an adj "good"?
Actually, in this case, I think pela is indeed an adjectival ending.
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