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Re: Nawan a Praleyo - Praleyo is dead.

From:Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 23, 2002, 5:00
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:30:35 +1200, Wesley Parish
<wes.parish@...> wrote:

I'm having some trouble following this part. Perhaps some complete
interlinears would help me?

Jeff J.

> consequently, complex sentence structures can be broken down into two > forms: > >one where the consequence of the action is yet more action, in which case >there is a set of particles to carry over from SVO to SVO; > > the other where the action concludes in a placing or positioning of some > sort (emotions are considered stative), or a placing/positioning results > in an action, where a simple conjugation indicates that the topic of the > SVO and the VS are the same - > |En tref ma li' ierrat di nan a en ierrat| > = I went to the hill and on the hill I sat. > |Aiator a li' tua en di li' tref ma u vaiti'anor u fait un en.| > = The midwife's daughter loves me and so went to a village of my kin. > ( |u| and |un| are partitive prepositions/indefinite articles.) > >If one were to say "because she was looking for me" one would need to add >|iam u te li' vaniro ma un en|, the particle cluster |iam| = for |u| = such >|te| = that, meaning "because". > > |li' | is both "the" when it preposes a noun, and "he", and "she" on its > own. > >Wesley Parish >-- >Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" >You ask, "What is the most important thing?" >Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." >I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."

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