>Dear Rett,
>Thanks for the examples and your explanations. I enjoyed them.
>I have my Visuddhimagga Tiika reading, and keep my eyes peeled. But it is
>about paramattha dhammas, now about the five khandhas, not about persons and
>events.
>Nina.

Thanks, Nina. That's an interesting observation. I agree that you
might be less likely to run into these forms in commentarial or
philosophical writing than in narratives. In the long run though, it
might be interesting to look at philosophical writing, since this
might help show if the rule is stylistic (having to do with the
conventions of storytelling) or more inherent in the structure of the
language. It's not always easy to tell the two apart, especially
since philosophical and commentarial writing use all kinds of special
techniques.

best regards,

/Rett