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participles again

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: participles again
• Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 01:55:42 EST

paul writes:
> /qettaHbogh loD/ = "The man who is/was/will be running"
> /qetlI'bogh loD/ = "The man who has/will have finished running"
> 
> /wa'Hu qettaHbogh loD vIlegh/ = "Yesterday I saw a man running" or
>                                 "Yesterday I saw the man who ran" or
>                           "Yesterday I saw the man who will be running"
> 
> It just so happened, in your two examples, you used one case where the
> noun modified is an object, and one case where the noun modified is the
> subject (of the clause).
> 
> ...Paul
> 
> 

paul, thanks for helping me make my point.   :-)
lay'tel SIvten

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