Pedant wrote: ↑Fri Jan 11, 2019 4:45 pm
Nurig annośan, mv’ angruri.
*Nurik annoshan, mu angruri*
Truth-INST.SING 1s-speak-AOR.INT-Ø / NEG 1s-understand-AOR.REAL-3s.
Truthfully, I don’t get it.
Gula is one of the verbals with a weird argument structure, typical of many body-part verbals that also encode an action associated with that body part.
gula = NOM is the pair of arms belonging to GEN which hug/embrace ACC
So if you just have NOM-this with this verbal, you get "this is a pair of arms / these are arms". Add GEN-1S and you get "these are my arms". Subtract NOM-this and you get "I have arms." Add in ACC-2S and it means "I hug you." Add back in NOM-this and it's "I hug you with these arms" or "These are the arms I hug you with". That basically breaks down to:
VP = There exists a pair of arms;
NOM = that pair of arms is this;
ACC = that pair of arms hugs you
GEN = that pair of arms is mine.
The gerundive (GDV) infix
-i- transforms a verbal so that it means the nominative argument OUGHT TO BE the accusative argument of the verbal it derives from, so "gulia" means "NOM ought to be hugged / is huggable" etc.
E hu lu xo na.
I have to go to work.
