Re: is?

[Richard Curnow <richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com>]

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Avital Oliver wrote:

> From: Avital Oliver <bio@evilors.net>
> 
> No, you don't understand. That was just a sample sentence. My problem is not
> the 'this', but the 'is'.
> 
> Let's try, "This is the language".
> 
> "This is a language" would be "ti bangu".
> "This is *the* language" should be something like "ti <something> le bangu",
> since 'le bangu' is not a selbri.

How about

ti   me                  le bangu

This <is a referrant of> <the language>

There is an example in the reference grammar, something like "This is one
of the Three Kings", which is handled this way.  I forget which chapter.

-- 
Richard P. Curnow
Stevenage, England