tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 07 07:56:20 1994
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Re: *sigh*
>Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 18:49:20 -0500
>Originator: [email protected]
>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
>According to Silauren Half-Elven:
>..
>> <qanIH>
>> "I steal you."
>> "I steal FROM you."
>Here, I could go either way. "Steal" is most commonly used
>transitively, though I suppose until we get some kind of
>clarification from Okrand, it could also be intransitive.
>Meanwhile, {Huch qanIH} would definitely mean, "I steal money
>from you." The direct object is fulfilled by the explicit noun,
>so the prefix can be free to point to the indirect object. Most
>often, when there is an explicit object and a non-matching verb
>prefix, the prefix is pointing to the indirect object while the
>explicit noun is the direct object. That seems to be the
>pattern I've seen here most often. Hence, your observation:
I think no matter how you slice it, the "from" place of nIH really should
have a -vo' on it...
Hmm... Unless you require something like "HuchlIj vInIH" instead.
~mark