<html><head><meta content="MSHTML 6.00.6001.18063" name="GENERATOR"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Jon, *yn whir is unattested. The form is yn gwyr, in guir in the texts.</span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Nicholas</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">----------<br></span></font><div><div>On 25 Jul 2008, at 09:42, Jon Mills wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Like Andrew, I too consider YN (preposition) and YN (adverbial particle) to be the same lexeme. For me 'yn whir' and 'yn ta' are simply prepositional phrases that function as adverbials. English also has prepositional phrases that function as adverbials; e.g., 'on time'.</div> <div>Jon<br><br></div> <blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">----- Original Message -----<br>From: "A. J. Trim" <ajtrim@msn.com><br>To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans@kernowek.net><br>Subject: [Spellyans] <y>, <i>, etc<br>Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:18:28 +0100<br><br> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0pc 0pc 10pt"><font face="Gentium" size="3">....</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0pc 0pc 10pt"><font face="Gentium" size="3">I am not convinced that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">yn</b> “in” is really any different from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">yn</b> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">adverbial particle</i>. I think they are the same word, so they should be spelt the same way. The adverbial use is some kind of an idiom using “in”. This mutates adjectives but not nouns, so <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">yn gwir</b> “in truth” is not mutated but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">yn ta</b> “well” is.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0pc 0pc 10pt"><o:p><font face="Gentium" size="3"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0pc 0pc 10pt"><font face="Gentium" size="3">Regards,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0pc 0pc 10pt"><font face="Gentium" size="3">Andrew J. Trim</font></p></font></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Spellyans mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Spellyans@kernowek.net">Spellyans@kernowek.net</a><br>http://kernowek.net/mailman/listinfo/spellyans_kernowek.net<br></i></y></spellyans@kernowek.net></ajtrim@msn.com></blockquote><i><p><br><br></p><pre>_____________________________________
Dr. Jon Mills,
School of European Culture and Languages,
University of Kent
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