Admirably clear! That'd be a bit much for my poor brain to handle
though. :)
+ Ed Heil ---------------------- edheil@postmark.net +
| "What matter that you understood no word! |
| Doubtless I spoke or sang what I had heard |
| In broken sentences." --Yeats |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> Ed Heil wrote:
> > I'm not sure I'm using obviative correctly, but if it's what I think
> > it is, it's what you use to differentiate two members of the same
> > class: e.g. "He hit him." Ambiguous. "He hit him.OBV" means the guy
> > you were talking about first hit the guy you were talking about
> > second.
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> D'oh! I knew that, I just forgot the terminology. Watakass=ED has
> something similar, but more flexible. Pronouns can (must?) take two
> cases endings. The first indicates the role that the pronoun has in th=
e
> sentence, the second "agrees with" what it refers back to. Thus, for
> instance:
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> John hit Bill for Bob. He lives here. - If no pronoun is used, "Bill=
"
> is assumed to be the subject. Otherwise:
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> Fa-kapa'-tas na-Dtya'n-al na-Bil na-Baba-tu
> Past-hit-3SR G2-John-Erg G2-Bill G2-Bob-Ben
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> Now, "he lives here", if he refers to:
> Bill: Kla'i-tas-va pi-biili-v (n-i'sfuna-yu-yu)
> Live-3SR-Hab G7-here-LOC G2-pron.-Abs-Abs)
> John: ... n-i'sfuna-yu-l
> G2-pron-Abs-Erg
> Bob: ... n-i'sfuna-yu-tu
> G2-pron-Abs-Ben
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> Yaw=EDntasva natab=ED, plansaf=ED nlak=FAsi
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