Re: Conference
| From: | J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 18, 2001, 1:25 |
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> 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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