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> > Maybe not. But I still think the verb should be "vigicampambe"
or
> > "vigicambambe", and the text could still be the focus of the
latter, or
> maybe a
> > secondary focus, using "tonke".
> >
>
> I would use the F-s [-AP] form "vigicanzimbe" plus the case
tag "cawme"
> to introduce 'stop'. "Tonke" is not appropriate here because it
would
> introduce a referent for exchange, comparison, or alternation.
>
> The A/P/F-s form implies that someone else is reading to the
patient.
> For example:
>
> Vigicanza pa Lajonse jukay = I read the story to John.
> [Note the word order - patient before focus!]
>
> The "-d" forms are not appropriate here because they would imply
that
> the patient underwent a change of state, and neither English
sentence
> has that implication.
I wrote my mail offline, hence the "temporal overlapping".
"cawme" means "i. e.", or "being", right? I agree that we must use
basically an F-x form. But what does "cawme" link to? I thought, it
links to the verb "reads". So, "stop" is ("i. e.") "the sign reads".
"The sign reads, i. e. 'stop'."
But the situation, that the sign reads, is an aid, an information, a
hint, but not a "stop". As I said before, an adjective solution might
seem to work:
"The sign caw 'stop' reads."
But how can we express a misreading? (Is there a "mis"-morpheme?
"The sign caw 'stop' reads mis-cawme 'shop'."
Is this the way we would need to formulate the sentence? So we'd use
case tags, and the argument structure remains as it is.
I think we initially wanted to have a dynamic verb, as we felt that
the result 'stop' comes into existance due to the reading...
I thought that the AP nature of "read" is because of the fact that a
reader has to keep oneself reading. If we change that structure to
A/P, then someone would keep another one reading, which is not "to
read something to someone" (and this example remains interesting).
Stevo wrote:
>stefo,
>What is the opposite of 'various, sundry, diverse, varied, manifold,
>multiform'? 'Uniform, homogeneous'?
>
>stevo
I think it is, yes.
Stevo wrote
>I don't understand your question. I meant: "Does anyone have a
>different opinion?"
>
>stevo
I didn't understand what opinion did you mean, if mine or yours.