Lyanjen verbs, Quebec City

> > Lyanjen:
> > ia   +r        teuc  +ar                  na    -n
> > I    +ag      love  +1pSgPrInd    you  +pat
 > Why do your agentive languages assign the agent slot to `I' in this
> sentence?  I saw another one:
 My cases work like this:

 NOM + intransitive verb: Na moiabar. "You(nom) are-beautiful."

 AGT + transitive verb + PAT: Iar teucar nan. "I(agt) love you(pat)."

 AGT + transitive verb taken as intransitive: Iar teuca. "I(agt) love" = I'm
in love.

 PAT + passive verb: Nan teucer. "You(pat) are-loved"; this is a
subject-fronted form of the more strongly passive Teucer nan, "(someone)
loves you(pat)".

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 Now let's look at place verbs (my favourite in Lyanjen), using the verb
"aubz" (to be down/under, to move down/under.)

 NOM + verb of place: Iañe aubzi terekit. "The glass(nom) sat-under the
table(loc)."

 AGT + verb of place + PAT: Bédior aubzi iañen. "The king(agt) lowered the
glass(pat)".

 PAT + verb of place: Iañen aubzi. "The glass(pat)
dropped/sank/fell/moved-down."






 BY THE WAY, is anyone here going to the Quebec City protests?

Matt McLauchlin
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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