[Lexicog] semantic domains

[Peter Kirk]

On 18/01/2004 15:19, Kenneth C. Hill wrote:

> The Hopi treatment of nominal predicates is like Russian only in having no
> overtly expressed untensed copula.
>
> --Ken Hill
>
This is not quite true of Russian. There is an untensed copula, yest',
but in modern language this is used mainly as a predicate of existence
("there is") and usually omitted in more general contexts. There are
other person forms e.g. 1st person yesm', but these are obsolete
although used occasionally in the 19th century Bible (e.g. at Exodus
3:14, the name of God, and in the "I am" sayings in John's gospel). The
verb yavl'at's'a may also be used as a copula, mostly in official contexts.

--
Peter Kirk
peter at qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk at qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/





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