Friday, July 24, 2015

Tatediem: Descriptive Comitative Possession

In Tatediem, it is possible to form phrases along the line of "with his arms bare" using the following pattern: cong1-ADJ def2poss1-NOUN2 where 'cong' is the congruence class marker of the possessor, and poss- the possessive prefix of that class.

This construction is most common with the kinds of nouns that typically are inalienable, but not restricted only to them. It is maybe more similar to the Latin version, nudae lacertos. Syntactically, the closest in English would be something like 'nude of the arms',although that seriously scrambles the Latin cases.

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