tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 21 14:20:13 1998
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Re: Quj bej Holtej qorDu'
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Quj bej Holtej qorDu'
- Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 16:53:32 -0400
From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
>which reminds me of another question I had: doesn't this make
>{lo'laHghach} a verb+{-ghach} without any intervening suffix?
>wouldn't it be better to say there are two verbs {lo'}, one
>meaning "uses" and the other meaning "is used"? then {lo'laH}
>can be analysed as "can be used" = "is useful" = "is valuable"
No. For one thing, Okrand has told us that {lo'laH} is its very own word.
That's solved.
For another, {lo'laHghach} must obviously be {lo'} + {-laH} + {-ghach}, not
{lo'laH} + {-ghach}.
SuStel
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