Re: rotokas; practical syllabarology; et alia

Roger Mills said:
> Herman Miller wrote:
>
>> karerovoviroravere "I will begin to return all the way."
> makasito mamaçan riyun {??not sure how they mean 'all the way')
> I-begin-fut. I-return there(distant)
Other things being equal, 'all the way' is typical SIL-speak for a
completive aspect. 'Return all the way' entails that some implied earlier
point of origin is reached.

I think most of Merrifield's "data" was constructed to demonstrate certain
morphosyntactic phenomena.


-- Mark