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Re: transitivity

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: transitivity
• Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:58:57 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
• References: <[email protected]>

ja' lay'tel SIvten:

> [email protected] writes:
>
>> Like {Qong}, for instance. We just don't have any nouns that could  
>> possibly
>> come after {Qong}.
>
> yInwIj naQ vIQongtaH.

What is that supposed to mean?  "I slept my unbroken life" makes no  
sense to me, even if I accept that it's possible for something to "be  
slept".

However, TKD uses {Qong} as its example of a verb which does not use  
the "has an object" prefixes.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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