Re: [tied] Re: Monovocalism: sequel

From: mcv@...
Message: 33397
Date: 2004-07-06

Jens wrote:

> You haven't missed anything, this has not been addressed here yet.
>
> It is like this:
>
> In independent clauses the intransitive adds personal
> (rudimentary)
> pronouns to an old active participle, as Greenl. aki-vu-Na 'I am
> answering', while the transitive uses the corresponding passive
> with
> inergative possessive endings, as aki-vara from *-paqa < *-paR-ka
> 'I answered him' (< "[he is] my answered one").
>
> In dependent clauses the endings of the intransitive are the
> *ergative* possessive endings: Greenl. aki-ga-ma 'when I answered,
> because I answered', aki-gu-ma 'when I shall answer, if I answer'.
> This implies not only a possessive 'my', but even a further
> possessive indicating that what is mine is itself the possessor of
> something: '[it is that] of my past answering', '[it is that] of
> my future answering'.

Understood. What about *transitive* dependent clauses? The same as main / independent clauses?