Re: war and death are in my hand
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 14, 2001, 0:57 |
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Doesn't seem strange to the average Kerno speaker either.
Perhaps the null copula is an Odd and Curious Feature of
the British Romance languages in Ill Bethisad?
'ny gante Kerno:
Ech! Me di la-n dersar zesoeritate l' Yfernne
e l' Eduoageor e la-n mMorants henny mea lamme
Ech! Me di la-n dersar zesoeritate l' Yfernne
Lo! I.nom* of the triple sorority (of) the Hell
e l' Eduoageor e la-n mMorantes henny mea lamme
and the Battle and the Death in.the my hand
* me is the emphatic form of eo, which is the usual form
for "I".
Padraic.
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Sally Caves wrote:
>Not unusual at all for Middle Welsh. (Brythenig is
>after all part Brythonic). And it looks
>as though Andrew is adopting Teonaht
>syntax! :-)
>Sally Caves
>scaves@frontiernet.net
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...>
>To: <CONLANG@...>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 9:53 PM
>Subject: Re: war and death are in my hand
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>
>> andrew wrote:
>>
>> > In Brithenig:
>> >
>> > Ech! Eo di gomyndad Iffern,
>> > See I.nom from community Hell
>> >
>> > E lla Wer e'll Morth i mew bruis.
>> > And the.f war and_the.m death in my grip
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Brithenig has a null copula? That would be most unusual for a Western
>> Indo-European language (much less a Romance language), wouldn't it? Or is
>> the deletion of the copula here some sort of rhetorical device?
>>
>> Matt.
>>
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