Fortunatian Copulative and Relative Copulative

From: habarakhe4 (theophilus88@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 16 2003 - 12:59:02 EST

The ordinary present tense of the copulative verb /os/ [@S] 'to be'
in Classical Fortunatian is:
sym [S1m]
os [@S]
ost [@t_S]
sys [S1S]
oi<bar> [@t_s] (dissimilation from /ost/ [@t_S]
syn [S1n]
The relative copulative patterns thus:
qf<r>isym/qf<r>im [piS1m], [pim]
qf<r>is [piS]
qf<r>ist [pit_S]
qf<r>ismys/qf<r>isys [piSm1S]/[piS1S]
qf<r>istys/qf<r>ii<bar> [pit_S1S]/[pit_s]
qf<r>isyn/qf<r>in [piS1n]/[pin]

The relative copulative is used after a determinitive pronoun which
affirms that a previous word is the subject of the relative clause.
The relative copulative must agree in number and person with the
referent. It appears in phrases such as:
nautr patr, pwau qf<r>is py psauflat
[naut. fat. fso piS f1 fsowrat]
Our father, you (m.sg.) who _art_ in (the) heaven
pwau fili pwau qf<r>ist adt dat pwau pan
[fso wiri fso pit_S at dat fso fan]
The man, he who gave the bread.

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