Re: [tied] Re: Monovocalism: sequel

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 mcv@... wrote:

> Jens wrote:

[On a putative structural parallel of the IE subjunctive:]

> > *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?

No, they are like the intransitive dependent with loose addition of object
pronouns. It's the arrangement where the 3sg is -gu/-uk (-ku/-gu in the
West). It seems they hit the ceiling of their grasp of a syntactic frame.

Jens