Anomaly of the (apparent) Cebuano uvulars and Guarani info request
| From: | Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 17, 2004, 21:29 |
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Apparently, Cebuano has uvulars-- or at least that's the impression I get
from the spelling. I never knew Cebuano (or Austronesianlangs, for that
matter) had such sounds...
"(38) a. nag-tawag ang babayi nakuq.
SUBJ.FOCUS,DUR-call TOPIC woman 1SG,NONTOPIC
'the woman was calling me'
b. babayi ang nag-tawag nakuq.
woman TOPIC SUBJ.FOCUS,DUR-call 1SG,NONTOPIC
'the one who was calling me was a woman'"
(from the excellent clause-type paper
<http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/clausetypes.pdf>)
In the Conlang Collaboration group, Paul Bennett írta: "...let me quickly
summarise the split-S language Guarani, because it's quite interesting:
"Transitive verbs ('give', 'steal', 'know') take A and O
Intransitive verbs ('go', 'remain', 'follow') take S_a
Quality verbs (used for adjectives) take S_o
"Transitive and Intransitive verbs may be placed in the imperative. Quality
verbs cannot."
This sounds pretty cool! Does anyone have any other info on Guarani? (Quotes
from books would be appreciated... :) ) I've read a bit about its phonology
online and that's pretty cool too...
Cheers/Thanks,
Trebor
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