Friday, February 5, 2016

Detail #254: A Restricted Case, with Noun Transitivity

Let us imagine a case that appears on personal pronouns and which signifies 'according to whose opinion'. So, e.g. me-accord = by my opinion.

Let's then go on to some special situations. The third and first person are oftentimes indicative, whereas the second person generally speaking is interrogative unless very specific cues as to its indicativeness are present. One such cue is if it directly follows (alternatively precedes) a perfective verb:
I wrote your-accord the letter
I wrote the letter as per your opinion regarding how it was to be written
your-accord this is good?
is this good, in your opinion?
If there is a missing argument, there is sort of an implicit 'what':
your-accord we do now?
what should we do now, in your opinion?
In this circumstance, the by-your-opinion is always clause-initial (if the language does wh-fronting). 

Further, these can serve as a somewhat adpositional things, giving, for instance,
plan-acc your-accord is?
what is your opinion of the plan?
elections-acc his-accord are superfluous
by his opinion, elections are superfluous
However, pronouns are  incorporated, giving a double possessive structure:
its-his-accord: by his opinion of it

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