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Suffix {-choH} on verbs referring to actions

Agnieszka Solska ([email protected])

• From: Agnieszka Solska <[email protected]>
• Subject: Suffix {-choH} on verbs referring to actions
• Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 13:46:28 +0000
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Chris
Doty commenting on canon examples involving {-choH}:

 

>All of these examples have
<-choH> attached to a verb 

>that describes a state or a
quality (often called in 

>linguistics stative verbs).  It might well be that <-choH> 

>marks an entrance into a
specific state.

>The exception to this is for
verbs of motion, but 

>since Okrand specific states
that <-choH> goes with verbs 

>of motion, I think that's fine.  But where do we not see 

><-choH>? With verbs that
actually describe an action 

>(i.e., active verbs).  

 

One
of the examples listed by Voragh had {'uch} in it.

Another one had {qaS} it it. Surely, both verbs
refer 

to
actions:

 

   wa'
jaj 'etlh 'uchchoHlaH tlhIngan puqloD 

   jajvetlh
loD nen moj.

     The
son of a Klingon is a man 

     the
day he can first hold a blade.

     (TKW, p.
177)

 

   laS veghaS HIltonDaq <<Hov leng: yIjeSchu'>> qaSchoHmo',    bIlopqu'meH HIlton yIghoS.      Come celebrate the grand opening of "Star Trek:       The Experience" at the Las Vegas Hilton.      (STX) I have another example in my notes, though one might argue that paying attention or concentrating does not constitute an action:    jemS tIy qIrq. loDHom jIHDI' qIrq qun vIqImchoH.      James T. Kirk. I've followed his history since I was a boy.      (MO's ST5 notes)

 

'ISqu'

 

 		 	   		  
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