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Re: [ceqli] Sam

In a message dated 8/18/2007 8:29:23 AM Central Daylight Time, rmay@hidden.email writes:


I've decided to go the Slavic route instead of the Romance route for reflexives.  That is,
borrowing the Russian 'sam,' (self), we have.

go soru zi - I shave you
go samsoru - I shave (myself)

so we get samxpul, samsmerfa, samklinfa, sambanya, etc.


Will "sam" be used for things like passives, impersonals, too?  "Sam" in Russian is more an emphatic pronoun/determiner than a reflexive, but for Ceqli that doesn't really matter.  

stevo