Evening/Night (was Re: The "Mother" Problem)

>
> For the Academy there seems to be one unsurmountable obstacle,
> though:
> what word class is it? A noun? An adverbial? What? How to classify
> it as a separate word?
>
> The use of it is in sentences restricted to predictative:
> "(det är) dax (att)", '(it is) time (to)'.
> (Once again the computer corrected my spelling! Arrgh!)
>
> Well, in the Slavic languages there seems to be some adverbials
> labelled as the word class predicative:
> Russian "nuzhno", "nado", "vidno", "mne kholodno" and many others,
> used with a "it is …" sousentendu.
> (What about "necesse" in Latin grammar?)

Actually Russian has an exact equivalence of 'dax' (this PC didn't
object): 'porá'.

> This might perhaps be a solution for the Swedish Academy: to
> give "dags" the status of a sovereign word belonging as the only

one

> in Swedish to the word class predicative.
>
> Well, this hyperboreal problem is perhaps of little interest world
> wide, but perhaps Torsten (who has previously praised the Academy
> for organizing the passive/deponent system so well) might comment

on

> this inflexibility.
>
> Now it's "dax" (arrgh) to have a cup of coffee …
>

Inflexibility is a defining property of Academies or they wouldn't
be Academies, thus the conflict between them and their dependent
subjects is a global feature. Besides, I praised the Swedish
language, not Academie for its nicely organised passive system;
I can't stand authorities, but love their results. Call it a
national trait.


Torsten