Re: I've got a feeling: More on NI tagging a noun in front of a noun.

mirror wrote:
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:30:37 -1000, Bart Mathias
<mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(NI is among the most deep and important particles.)
(I already knew that. Why are we whispering?)

Bart

Because I think I am getting a sense for what NI means and I don't
know how to express that sense. But I know it has little to do with
what my textbooks and references say NI means.

"Means"? I don't think it "means" anything. It *does* things.




And I think the sense is closer to the quotative TO and the
existential, assertive, faux predicate TE/DE than it is to anything
related to direction or location. If anything, at least it is O/WO
dressed in drag! Yes, it is O/WO alchemically transmuted!

The doctors are knocking at the door. Pardon me.


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