Re: VMs: excessive frequency of doubles...

[Pierre Abbat <phma@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 19 August 2004 10:24, Jacques Guy wrote:
> 19/08/2004 9:02:00 AM, "Jan" <hurychj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Try to  match this samples from the VM:
> >
> >f585v okal,qokal,otal,ytal,okol,opal,otol,qotal,ypal
> >f86v5 qokar,ykar,ytar,otar,okar,opor,qopor,qotar,ypar,ytor
> >f89v2   okol,okal,otal,otol,qokal
> >f89v1  okol,qokol,okal,opol,otal,qopol,ykol
> >f99r     qotol,qokal,qokol,ykol
> >f99v   qokol,okal,okol,otal,otol
> >f101r1 okol,okal,otol
> >f102r1 okal,qokol,ytol
> >f103r qokaly,okaly
> >f103v otar,qotar,opar
> >f104r  qokal,okal,qotal,otal,okol,otol,qokol,
> > okar,qokar,otar,qotar,okor,ykar -
>
> Strange. I could not find any of those sequences.
>
<snip>
> Where do you see that
>
> "f104r  qokal,okal,qotal,otal,okol,otol,qokol,
> okar,qokar,otar,qotar,okor,ykar"?
>
> Look for qokal. There are four occurrences of it, none followed by okal.
> There are two occurrences of qotal, one followed by okechol, the other
> by chol, none by otal. ???

He means that those forms occur on that page, not that they occur in that 
order.

I think we're dealing with a language in which person, gender, number, and 
possibly other grammatical notions are rolled up into one word and placed 
separately. For instance, in Basque:
Martinek egunkariak erosten dizkit.
By-Martin the-newspapers buy "dizkit"
where "dizkit" indicates a present tense plural verb with the indirect object 
"me". (Basque is ergative, so the verb agrees in number with what in English 
is the direct object.)

I'm not saying it's Basque, but it might be a long-lost relative that somehow 
survived without otherwise being attested, or another language that has a 
similar construction.

phma
-- 
li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa
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