Re: THEORY: third-person imperatives

Tom Wier wrote:
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> Hey, I was just wondering how people here handle the third
> person imperative.  In my Greek class, we're getting things like
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> timat=F4 oun ho ge d=EAmos ton Hom=EAron kai ton Euripid=EAn
> "Therefore, have the people honor Homer and Euripides"
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> (I know, I know, a really contrived sentence... but it serves
> the point.)
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> In Degaspregos, one would just use the third person pronoun
> or noun with a imperative mode verb:
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> Sunote, dugatros teoso leobosna teutososna gnoiat
> 'Son, have your daughter know of the life/history of your tribe'
Well if the revised form of the Nova grammar ever makes it to the
web, it will note that Nova has direct address forms for each of
the three main classes of eventives (verbs, statives, nouns).  The verb
for instance has 10 different voices in this direct address form
which is basically a glorified imperative.  The nominal case
varies with the role of noun but would typically be Active case.
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