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Re: war and death are in my hand

From:J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 13, 2001, 1:55
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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