tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 16 05:58:28 1998
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Re: Comparatives and Superlatives
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Comparatives and Superlatives
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 22:10:43 -0500
From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
>[regarding {law'/puS}]
>
>ja' charghwI':
>>The word order and grammar is not negotiable, but you can change
>>the Quality verbs in any way consistent with verbs used
>>adjectivally. We know that you can use {-Ha'}, though you can't
>>use most other verb suffixes.
>
>Hmm? We know we can use {-qu'}; that's given by TKD page 50. We're pretty
>sure we can use {-be'}, since {lI'be'} shows up adjectivally on one of the
>audiotapes. We *assume* we can use {-Ha'} by analogy and by the fact that
>things like {QuchHa'} and {yepHa'} appear in the dictionary. Or is there
>something I've forgotten that gives us explicit confirmation that {-Ha'} is
>okay on an adjectival verb?
KGT p.150: {Duj ngaDHa'}.
>Another conjecture is given here as if it were an established fact, too.
>Do we actually know we can use anything other than bare verb stems in the
>Q(uality) slot of a {law'/puS} construction?
We have never seen this.
SuStel
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