Minhast: Difference between revisions
A lot of reformatting and rewording, but substance is same. Main major change: complex derivations using verbal affixes - the resulting derivation aren't syntactically noun-like at all! |
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# ''Hatā', hata' ušnekaru'' ("No, I did not hit him"). | # ''Hatā', hata' ušnekaru'' ("No, I did not hit him"). | ||
# ''Hatā', ta'ušnekaru'' ("No, I did not hit him"). | # ''Hatā', ta'ušnekaru'' ("No, I did not hit him"). | ||
# ''Hatā' watta'ušnekaru'' ("No, I definitely did not hit him"). | # ''Hatā' watta'ušnekaru'' ("No, I definitely did not hit him"). This ''Wa''-structure is called the ''Absolute Negation'' construction. | ||
# ''Ta'ušnekaru'' ("I did not hit him"). | # ''Ta'ušnekaru'' ("I did not hit him"). | ||
# ''Hambin watta'ušnaru'' ("There was no one who hit him", not "There was no one whom he hit", which represents the expected S/O pivot) | # ''Hambin watta'ušnaru'' ("There was no one who hit him", not "There was no one whom he hit", which represents the expected S/O pivot). This ''Wa''-structure is called the ''Absolute Negative Existential'' construction. | ||
=== Conjunctions and Connectives=== | === Conjunctions and Connectives=== | ||