tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 10 09:51:35 2006
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RE: transitivity
Voragh wrote:
> > jIghung je
> > I am also hungry. PK
> >
> > {je} applies to the verb: hungry in addition to thirsty
> >
> > jI'oj je
> > I am also thirsty. PK
> >
> > {je} applies to the verb: thirsty in addition to hungry
DloraH:
>I take the joke as <je> applying to the subject. "I am hungry/thirsty
>also, in addition to you." He was replying to the prisoner saying he
>was hungry/thirsty.
So you see no difference between {jIghung je} "I'm also thirsty, I'm
thirsty too" (which are ambiguous in English) and {jIghung jIH je} "I, too,
am thirsty" other than the emphasized pronoun?
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons