Re: very confused - syntax question

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, J.Barefoot wrote:

> ta rusa-k@-mi siu na a-kanyase ko kanyan-al-ena inya kah
> with brother-pl-my two that the-prize TOP.past won-middle-they.resumptive
> they.resumptive BEN
> with my two brothers who won the prize
>
> Should "kanyan" be inflected for third person plural?  I hope I've made
> myself at all clear, because I don't even know what I'm saying/asking.
If this were Valdyan (which doesn't have a middle or even a passive
voice, but does have impersonal constructions that can emulate the
passive) I'd do it, especially since the resumptive pronoun *does*
seem to be the subject of _kanyan_.

Valdyan has a similar construction with _le_, which can be reflexive
or resumptive, but in fact simply is a "dummy" object pronoun
standing in for the subject of the main clause. The only example I
can find would confuse you even more, so I'm not giving it ;-)

   Irina


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