tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 01 20:38:38 1996
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Re: Nice picture & KLBC
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Nice picture & KLBC
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 23:40:49 -0500
Daniel writes:
>>Can we use {meQ} adjectivally like this?
>
>I knew I couldn't really, but I couldn't figure out hou to turn burn into
>burned.
Depending on the interpretation of {meQ} as transitive or intransitive,
there are two different ways to describe a "burnt house". If it is an
intransitive verb and "the house burns", {meQpu'bogh qach} is "the house
which has burned." If it is transitive and "someone burns the house,"
{qach meQlu'pu'bogh} is "the house which has been burned [by someone]."
Of course, if we follow the CK example, it is simply {qach meQ}.
>I didn't think -lu' was possible in the list of verbs that I copied out of
>K3-1, dr. Schoener's program, it says: -lu' | 5 | indefinite subject, but
>isn't there a definite subject in the sentence, Ha'DlbaHmey. I know you're
>the beginners grammatarian and al that, but you've lost me their.
No, in {Ha'DIbaHmey meQlu'pu'bogh DaSoptaH}, {Ha'DIbaHmey} is the *object*.
Some unspecified and indefinite subject has burned the animals.
[And I think the {pojwI} program you mentioned ("K3-1") was written by
d'Armond Speers ("Holtej"), not Dr. Schoen (Lawrence).]
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj