Re: l/ìl or ri/ir here?

Started by Kemaweyan, December 13, 2010, 11:19:54 AM

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Kemaweyan

You shouldn't use -l/-ìl with modal verbs :) These sentences would be just:

  Oe new yivom ngati
  Oe tsun pivlltxe nì'Ìnglìsì
  Oe zene tspivängang ngati set


As for topic.. I think it's possible :) So

  Oeri new yivom ngati
  As for me, (I) want eat you.

is correct.
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Quote from: Kemaweyan on December 13, 2010, 11:19:54 AM
As for topic.. I think it's possible :) So

  Oeri new yivom ngati
  As for me, (I) want eat you.

is correct.

Possible but certainly not advisable. Outside of set phrases that include topicals and inalienable possession we have seen far too few examples of its use for us to say if this is correct. Given that we have never seen anything like this I would say that it is probably incorrect and should be avoided.

The important thing to remember is that in most cases (i.e. not one of the set phrases or inalienable possession), the topical is to be avoided and other cases are better.
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Quote from: Ikranari on December 13, 2010, 12:05:16 PM
ok, Irayo ma eylan akanu  ;)

"ma meylan", ay+ (and short plurals) are only ever used if there's more than four of them, otherwise you have to use the blank form if there's one, me+ if there're two or pxe+ if there're three. :)
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Quote from: kewnya txamew'itan on December 13, 2010, 01:10:22 PM
Quote from: Ikranari on December 13, 2010, 12:05:16 PM
ok, Irayo ma eylan akanu  ;)

"ma meylan", ay+ (and short plurals) are only ever used if there's more than four four or more of them, otherwise you have to use the blank form if there's one, me+ if there're two or pxe+ if there're three. :)
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Tì'efumì oeyä, I prefer to think of ay+ as generic plural, when fko does not know if me+ or pxe+ is correct in the context.

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It's both.  If you know there are one, two or three, it would be grammatically incorrect to use the ay+ form.  (You COULD use the singular form if you qualify it with a number...  IE muvea tute instead of mesute.)  However if you don't know how many there are, ay+ is the only form that makes sense.  Just like in English you'd use the plural form if you don't know how many, even if it is only one.
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