Re: K'tle morphosyntax
| From: | Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 5:25 |
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:31:22 -0600, Matthew Turnbull
<ave.jor@...> wrote:
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> HI, just a couple questions :
> You referred to type 1 and 3 roots, what do you mean by that?
I was trying to refer to the kinds of verbs I mentioned: 1 = monovalent
patientive and 3 = divalent relational. I probably should have said "stems"
or "verbs".
> Also could you give an example of a relation verbs usage, I've never
> heard of them before.
That's my own term, I think. These are mostly spatial relations (with a few
others, like for possessives, partitives, instrumentals) which most languages
use adpositions for. An example:
Canni heazto t'k-a.
John house 3SDIR.inside-3S
"John's in the house."
The suffix refers to John (unlike with transitive verbs!). This could also be:
Heazto Canni ma-t'k-a.
house John 3SINV-inside-3S
where the suffix now refers to the house. The difference between the
sentences is one of topicality.