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Re: HeghlI' jIlwI'

• From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: HeghlI' jIlwI'
• Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:45:15 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>([email protected])

>Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 07:28:33 -0800
>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>

>> HeghlI'taHvIS ghaH taHnIS chaH.

>HeghlI'taHvIS ghaH taHnIS Hoch.

Sorry to intrude mundanity and English, but a grammar point needs to be
made (and in English so people can see it):

You can't say "*HeghlI'taHvIS"; "-lI'" and "-taH" are both type 7
suffixes.  Someone once tried, I remember, to say "*-lI'vIS" for this
meaning, and it was basically decided that you couldn't.  Okrand is very
clear that you can only use "-taH."  So -taH it is, and the
"in-process"-ness of it just has to wind up being lost in this word.

~mark

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