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Re: I luv u

From:daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 18, 2001, 14:47
Henrik Theiling wrote:

> I fully understand Rinya's system (patientive + ablative > for 'you')
Yup. I remember when I came up with this solution. It was back in August 1999 [Oh, those were the days... :) ]. [i:rk], it was Jennifer Barefoot, Matt Pearson and Christophe Grandsire who lead me in the right direction. The idea is that all "emotional" verbs and verbs which take an Experiencer subject mark their "subjects" with PAT and their "object" with ablative. Since ABL is basically SOURCE, this works fine if you look at it metaphorically. "I.EXPERIENCER saw the bird.SOURCE" (non-control) "I.AGT looked at the bird.PAT" (control) So "I:EXP love you:ABL" might be thought of as "I experience love coming from you." :) ||| daniel -- <> Kattawiknik pimaktasal! <> daniel.andreasson@telia.com <> <> Katsayuknik pimak! <> www.geocities.com/conlangus <>