tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Sep 05 00:09:47 1995
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Re: }} Resultative Verb Compounds
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: }} Resultative Verb Compounds
- Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 23:09:47 -0500
>I have been wanting to say: I cut his head off. Then I heard on the tape my
>answer.
>
>nachDaj vIpe' 'e' chev
"I cut his head; [something] separates that" sounds pretty wierd.
I don't have the tapes, so I'm working at a disadvantage here, but
I think the sentence I've heard discussed was a command for a pet
to "Bite his leg off!" Wasn't that {'uSDaj yIchop yIchev}?
"Bite his leg! Separate it!" is quite reasonable. With that model,
I would say {nachDaj vIpe' vIchev} "I cut his head; I separate it."
Perhaps you have misinterpreted the tape, hearing {'e'} for {vI'}.
>Therefore, it appears to me that this is the formula for all resultative verb
>phrases (in Mandarin we call them resultative verb compounds).
yIyep! wa' mu'tlheghmo' neH bImeqtaH.
"resultative verb phrase" yIDel.
"purpose clause" jatlhlu'meH <-meH> lo'nISlu' 'e' vIHar.
>Qap wanI'vam 'e' vItul
vIHon.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj