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From:J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 18, 2001, 1:25
> Andreas Johansson wrote: > > If I may make a suggestion, make that sentence "I love you". For some reason > > it seems to be among very the first people learn in a new lang ...
Tokana would be: "ma uikau" (pronounced [ma 'wikaw] or [ma 'wigaw]) "ku uikama" (pronounced [ku 'wikama] or [ku 'wigama]) The first expression emphasises the subject "I", while the second sentence emphasised the object "you". The glosses are: ma uika-u 1s.ERG love-2s.AC "I love you" ku uika-ma 2s.Abs love-1s.NAC "You I love" Here, AC = absolutive clitic form of the pronoun, while NAC = non-absolutive clitic form. Matt.

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