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--- Henrik Theiling <theiling@hidden.email> wrote: > Hi! > > Adam Walker <carrajena@hidden.email> writes: > >... > > What I'm wondering is, do any of you find the > original > > difficult to parse? ... > > No problems in parsing -- but my L1 is German and it > has dative case, > so I'm used to this, I suppose. That's not the > same, of course, but > word order is often very different in German than in > English and your > example did not seem to be weird. > > However, why is it not '...pera junu cadoligu > undrari ils...'? Because the verb "undrari" must come before the noun "cadoligu" or else that noun would belong to the previous verb. C-a is verb-initial. > > >.. > > Do you think the addition of "to" marking the > clause > > boundary makes thing clearer, more confused or > just > > silly? > > Hmm -- I'd not add it, I think. <snip> > *If* you want to add anything, my intuition suggests > adding 'di'/'de' > or the equivalent in Carrajena for addtion passive > construction > subjects: > > ...pera undrari di junu cadoligo ils... > Hmm. Mark the subject of the verb with "of"? Feels strange a heck to me, but . . . > Additional of 'ad' sounds strange to me, actually. > More strange than > the unexpected word order in the first place. > > Is this what you wanted to know? :-) > > **Henrik > Very much so. Thanks for the input. Processing . . . . Adam Jin nifalud fistus todus idavi eseud adimpuudu ul isu fi aved niminchunadu pera ul Dju peu'l medju djul provedu cumvi dichid: «Iñi! Cunchepijid ed nadajid il virdjini ad junu huiju, ed cuamajuns ad si il Emanueli fi sñivigad ul Dju simu noviscu.» Machu 1:22-23