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Re: KLBC: lIy Hale-Bopp



David Trimboli wrote:
> As I have pointed out, {wew} means "glow," not "be glowing,"

What is the difference?

> so it cannot be used adjectivally.

`A verb expressing state or quality can be used immediately following
a noun to modify that noun' (_tKD_:49).  Is there any reason to think
that {wew} `glow' doesn't express a state?

--'Iwvan

-- 
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 jagh val qaq law' jup QIp qaq puS"     do^sman-e dAnA beh az nAdAn dOst>
                 (Sheikh Muslihuddin Abu Muhammad Abdullah Saadi Shirazi)
Ivan A Derzhanski                             <[email protected]>
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