Have and BE verbs

[Nobukatsu.Minoura@sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de]

Dear colleagues,

Susan's NS = my JSL, btw.(^_^)

Just an additional comment re JSL.

on 2/5/02 10:09 AM, Susan Fischer wrote:
>> Just an additional comment re NS (Nihon Syuwa): IRU can also be glossed
>> as SUMU (to live in a place), hence has a wider distribution than just "to
>> exist
>> [animate]".

A deaf friend of mine consistently uses a compound IE-IRU (house-exist
[animate!!!]) for that meaning.  Maybe it is a case of noun incorporation.
And there is no equivalent of this expression in spoken Japanese.

PT1  TOKYO  IE-IRU
me   Tokyo  house-exist[anim]
I live in Tokyo.



Nobukatsu Minoura
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
minoura at tufs.ac.jp
nobum at gol.com