Information / nouns vs. verbs

Wablenica wablenica at mail.ru
Sat Jan 11 05:51:46 UTC 2003


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Subject: Re: Information / nouns vs. verbs


> I must say I have never seen anything likr thathipi 'their house',
> more usually things like wathi el 'in the (where) I live', or John thi
> ekta 'to (where) John lives'.  Existence of thathipi would however be
> quite strong evidence
> Bruce


I wonder has anybody also heard the forms nitxathipipi, uNkitxathipi, and
txathipipi - 'our house(s)', 'your(pl.) house(s)', and 'their house(s)'.
Connie



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