Re: Comitative (was: Help with grammatical term)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 25, 2008, 19:25 |
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Fredrik Ekman <ekman@...> wrote:
> Good question. The prefix in question is "ni-", and it can be found for
> instance in the word "ni-golanan" which breaks down thus:
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> ni- golanan
> COM we.REFL
> together
IOW, "with ourselves". So is that limited to first person contexts?
Would you use "they" instead of "we" for the "together" in "The
sisters went together"?
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>