tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun May 28 03:46:57 1995
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Re: mu'qaD - KLBC
On Fri, 26 May 1995 02:57:29 -0400, "R.B Franklin" <[email protected]> said:
> {tuQmoH} is listed in TKD as "to put on (clothes)" but it literally means
> "to cause to wear". {Sut tlhaQ DutuQmoH SoSlI'} means "Your mother puts
> on you funny clothing" or "Your mother causes you to wear funny clothing".
{Du-} is supposed to indicate a second person singular object (as in
{[SoH] Dulegh} `(s)he sees you'), but this sentence has a third person
object, {Sut tlhaQ}. Is {tuQmoH} being used as a ditransitive verb (one
with two objects) here? If so, how would one say `The mother causes
the child to wear funny clothes'? {Sut tlhaQ puq tuQmoH SoS}?
{puq Sut tlhaQ tuQmoH SoS}?
(Yes, I know that Okrand used {nob} as a ditransitive verb in the
nose-giving formula in PK. He hasn't commented on that, has he?)
--'Iwvan