Dear Cybalisters:
----- Original Message -----From: markodegard@...Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 7:02 PMSubject: [tied] Re: Tyrrhenian and its relation to IEgLeNny writes
> In IndoTyrrhenian,
> the nominative marked the subject/patient,
> the accusative marked the object,
> and the genitive marked the agent.
Remaining sceptical of 'IndoTyrrhenian', you are saying (ignoring
niceties of word order):
gLeNny-nom | dis-past | Pat-acc | sarcasm's-gen/agentive.
gLeNny dissed Pat by sarcasm's agency.
[PCR]EGAD, I THINK HE'S GOT IT!
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