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Re: napbe' 'ej Dalbe' _See Spot run_



(This is getting off-topic, so I'm switching to Klingon.)

Holtej wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote:
> > [_Spot run_ in _see Spot run_] is a small clause.
> > It has also been analysed as a number of other things.
> 
> I thought the predicate piece of a SC was an AP (i.e., stative)?
> Such as "The judge found the defendant innocent."

AP 'oHlaHbej, 'ach AP 'oHnISbe' 'e' muHar paqmey vIlo'bogh.
<_consider *the judge a fool*_, _want *the witness out of the room*_,
_make *the executor hang the condemned*_ je mu'thleghmeyDaq
mu'tlheghHom (SC, calque of French _clausette_) tu'lu' je> ja' bIH.
'ach _terminology_ lulo'taHvIS rut pImchuqbej Holtejpu'.  HIjatlh,
chay' _see Spot run_ Dapoj?  _forte_wIj 'oHbe' mu'tlheghQeD yoSvam'e'.

> You wouldn't say *"(you) see Spot (to be) run."

qar, 'ach mu'tlhegh le' tu'lu''a' 'e' wuvnISbe' mu'tlheghHom 'e' vIQub.
(I'm not sure SChood depends on the existence of a related exceptional
clause.)

--'Iwvan

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 poH vIghajchugh neH jIH, yab boghajchugh neH tlhIH"
                                  (Lewis Carroll, "_Snark_ wamlu'")
Ivan A Derzhanski  <[email protected], [email protected]>
Dept for Math Lx,  Inst for Maths & CompSci,  Bulg Acad of Sciences
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