Re: News
| From: | Dennis Paul Himes <himes@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 1, 2003, 3:10 |
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"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
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> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 06:30:26PM -0400, Dennis Paul Himes wrote:
> > If that's so, the Gladilatian is:
> >
> > Fmavna noflau.
>
> The -u is a nominalizer, so "noflau" is a noun? Which makes the
> whole thing a copula - "My-vna [is a] pregnant-person"?
>
> > Nofla fmavna.
> "Pregnant my-vna". That's a bare noun phrase?
Yes for all three questions. All Gladilatian sentences are copulas.
(Glad. is a verbless language.) In formal Gladilatian everything is
expressed as sentences. In informal Gladilatian that is relaxed somewhat.
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