There's a formation in Finnish to express future time: a conjugated (person, time) form of the verb _olla_ 'to be' and the present participle of a verb, e.g....
... When you say "conjugated (person, time)", do you mean that the auxiliary is in the future tense (so that _olen oleva_ more literally means "I will be...
Hello, ... If that is a participle, the more literal translation will be 'I will be being', won't it? ... To my senses as a non-native speaker, that doesn't...
... No, because there is no future tense in Finnish (nor in any other known Finno-Ugrian language). The only tenses are the present and the past. _olen oleva_...
... Actually, in the Quenya verbal system _i_ indicates the _aorist_, not the present tense. Examples include: _i KARIR quettar ómainen_ 'those who FORM words...
... That would clash with the negative element _u- (uv-, um-, un-)_, _ú, ?ugu_ (VT42:32). Unless they are related? Tolkien glossed it as 'originally...
... Yes, that was known to me. There's no aorist vs. present (continual) tense distinction in Finnish, only one present tense. I find it quite strange that the...
... Aorist in Greek means "undefined, not fixed". Hence it fits the Quenya "tense" quite well (compare Patrick's description). Indeed, the name "aorist" fits...
... Thank you, I understand now. But what about _Eleni SILIR lúmesse omentiemman_ 'The stars SHINE on the hour of our meeting' (VI:324)? Here the time is...
... Técanye: Depends on what Hell means, linguistically speaking: are we talking about a place of Punishment and eternal damnation? Like Hebrew Gehenna or the...
... This is one interpretation. Is not there another possible one, namely that the aorist is used in a sense not excluding temporal determination, but merely...
Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Feb 3, 2003 1:30 pm
312
... While I agree that 'on the hour' may not necessarily point to a single incident in time, the hour we are talking about is specified by an attribute ('the...
I would like to draw attention to Ales Bican's substantial and thoughtful linguistic analysis of "The _Atalante_ Fragments", just published on his web site: ...
[This letter is being sent to elfling, lambengolmor and tolklang, because some people may be members of one list but are not (do not want to be) members of...
Ales Bican suggests in his study of the "Atalante Fragments" that _nahamna_ "to hýþe" (V:47) might be analyzed as _na-_ "to" prefixed preposition (V:374) +...
Greetings, I have long wondered what kind of tree could be the _lebethron_ mentioned twice in LotR: "but take these staves. ... The men of the White Mountains...
... Thanks to a friend, I was pointed that Quercus digitata is also annotated as Quercus falcata and Quercus rubra in various taxonomy lists, thus apparently...
... I'm no aldangolmo, but of Q. prinus the _Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees, Eastern Region_ (Knopf, 1980), p. 406, says, "The wood is...
Jerome Colburn
jcolburn@...
Feb 9, 2003 2:00 pm
319
[Sorry for such a belated responce: I meant to react to this letter, but was occupied by other things. -- ab] ... **First of all, I think there is no published...
Hello, Ales Bican has raised several most interesting points in response to my proposals regarding the various domains of phonetics and phonology in Quenya...
On the subject of "palatalized" consonants I think it is paramount to hold up the distinction between primary and secondary palatalized sounds, as pointed out...
David Kiltz has set forth a theory proposing how one can resolve the difficulty regarding the apparent violations of the syllable weight limitation. While I...
Greetings, I am submitting for peer review my essay about the lebethron tree. The list moderators have made it available in the "Files" area of the list: ...
On Mittwoch, Februar 19, 2003, at 03:50 Uhr, Pavel Iosad wrote: <snip> [...] ... They are two things. Yes, "s" also has a special status in I.-E. because it...
... It must be noted here that this is a matter of Modern Greek _spelling_, not of _phonetics_ or _phonology_. The spelling rule for foreign borrowings arose...
Rich Alderson
alderson+quenya@...
Feb 21, 2003 1:09 am
326
Hello, ... 'No other' here no doubt means 'not derived from _s_', as the s-prefixion could turn into z-prefixion in a Slavic root like *_zdorv-_ 'hale,...
Zdorovo, ... Two things: I was actually referring to the role of "s" (and its allophone "z") as a cluster splitter. Not to the s-mobile. As for the Slavic,...
... I was referring to The Etymologies. But your examples are wonderful, I didn't find them then. So _st_ would be retained. David Kiltz [As would _sk_, on the...
... **Er, did I miss something? As far as I know neither the perfect of _lelya-_ (did you mean _auta-_?) nor the present tense of _lanta-_ (I suppose you mean...
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