Re: THEORY: third-person imperatives
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 25, 1999, 20:02 |
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On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 12:12:34 -0400 John Cowan <cowan@...>
writes:
>Steg Belsky scripsit:
>> I can't think of any situation where a true third-person imperative
>would
>> be needed that couldn't be redefined (or better defined?) as a
>> second-person imperative affecting a third person.
>Consider JFK's inaugural address: "Let the word go forth from this
>time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been
>passed
>to a new generation of Americans [...]". How would you transform
>this into a natural 2nd-person imperative?
>--
>John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
Okay, you've thought of one :) .
I'd probably use a vocative _ei-_ /?ej/ attached to a future tense verb,
something like:
_ei-uzii-brol dhaz guvdhab nga'kaz..._
(vocative)-it(future)-leave this say from'here&now
-Stephen (Steg)
_,i ta'khavyam-a tzmam-a ii-iltao nyeng amzii-brol,._
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