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RE: transitivity

DloraH ([email protected])

• From: "DloraH" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: transitivity
• Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:23:59 -0600
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> >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?

If we had this sentence out of context, all alone, then I most likely would
have attached je to the verb; but in the context of the joke I put it on the
noun.


DloraH

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