Re: war and death are in my hand

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


> 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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