Re: Klingon WOTD: chaQ (verb)

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In a message dated 2005-02-08 5:24:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
sboozer@uchicago.edu writes:


> >Remember that with double-predicate causative verbs, if there's only one
> >predicate present it can be either the person or thing who is made to do the
> >action *or* the person or thing ultimately affected by the action. Either
> >can stand as the object. In {qogh vItuQHa'moHpu'}, you can either interpret
> >it as is (which makes no semantic sense),
> 
> But it is consistent with the {poSmoH} example below:  what is opened or 
> removed is the "natural" object of the verbs, with or without {-Ha'}:
> 
>    yIvbeHwIj vIpoSmoH.
>    I opened my blouse.
> 
>    yIvbeHwIj vItuQmoH.
>    I put my blouse on.
> 
>    qoghDaj tuQmoH.
>    He put his belt on.
> 
>    qoghDaj tuQHa'moH.
>    He took his belt off.
> 
> 
> Voragh

The {poSmoH} example is not valid.  {poS} is a state verb; it takes no object 
of its own.  Thus adding {-moH} can add only one object: the thing opened.

Despite {raD}, I still like {'e' qaSmoH} for 'cause'.

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