Comitative (was: Help with grammatical term)
| From: | Fredrik Ekman <ekman@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 25, 2008, 13:43 |
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Comitative seems to be the bird I was looking for.
On Sun, August 24, 2008 5:45 pm, Mark J. Reed said:
> what exactly is the difference between using your
> prefix and one meaning "and"?
Good question. The prefix in question is "ni-", and it can be found for
instance in the word "ni-golanan" which breaks down thus:
ni- golanan
COM we.REFL
together
If you were to use the "and" prefix (not yet invented), the semantic
meaning would change, perhaps it would not even be a meaningful
combination in this particular case.
Fredrik
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