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RE: transitivity

Terrence Donnelly ([email protected])

• From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: transitivity
• Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:16:05 -0800 (PST)
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--- Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
> 
> 

I agree with DloraH, and think that you are right
about the emphasis of the above.  In the joke, how
could the first {je} possibly apply to the second
verb,
unless someone is claiming that the guard can see into
the future.

-- ter'eS

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