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Re: polysynthetic languages

From:Eddy Ohlms <ohlms@...>
Date:Saturday, September 27, 2003, 19:59
Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> When you feel like it! :))) Basically, it transforms a cold utterance of > fact into something with feeling inside. > > I think it's the kind of things you need to have in your native tongue to > understand, because it's not really explainable. > > Most Romance conlangs still have a separate dative at least with the > personal pronouns. The "ethical dative" is never used with anything else > but pronouns (or agreement marks in the case of Euskara) anyway.
This ethical dative is an interesting concept. I'll have to incorporate it into one of my conlangs. So you just add a pronoun with the ethical dative to the sentence to use it?