tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 14 04:15:28 1996
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Re: KLBC-double-object verbs
- From: "Garrett Michael Hayes" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC-double-object verbs
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 07:13:09 -0500
- Organization: Client/Server Labs
- Priority: normal
13 Mar 96 21:29 ghItlh ghunchu'wI'
> HomDoq writes:
<pe'>
> >In the case of "give" you can always tell, whether the word
> >before ..nob is the recipient or the gift, by looking at the
> >type five suffix it has: -vaD -> recipient, -0 or -'e' -> gift
>
> The word immediately before {nob} should *always* be the gift.
> *Nothing* should come between the (direct) object and the verb.
> Other things (time stamps, locatives, purpose clauses, and the
> {-vaD}-marked "indirect objects") all come *before* the object.
Would modifiers to the DO be an exception to the "*nothing*
should come between" rule? ie: is something like <betleH jej nob>
acceptible when the gift is a *sharp* <betleH> rather than just a
<betleH> ?
(Obviously, one would normally *assume* a <betleH> to be sharp, but I
might be inclined to want to make that disctinction when giving the
gift to a child where there is a question of age appropriateness <grin>)
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