tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 16 07:10:13 1997
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RE: jajwIj
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: jajwIj
- Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 09:06:44 -0500
ghItlh SuStel:
>jatlh ter'eS:
>
>> >
>> >lu'. chaq mu' <muja'> Dalo'chugh vaj mu'tlheghlIj vIyaj
>>
>> pImbe'law' wotmey 'e' vIHar. mu'tlheghvamDaq DoS (=object) lughajbe'
>> {ja'}{jatlh} je. *"he reports me" 'oS <muja'> 'ej "he reports _to_ me"
>> 'oSbe' 'e' vIHar.
>
>I disagree. Going through section 4 of TKD, we have many examples with {ja'}:
>
[chovnatlhmey teqlu']
>There's even {ja'chuq} "tell each other." I can find no canon use of {ja'}
>with an object other than the person being spoken to.
>
>Also, the two glosses in TKD for {ja'}, "tell, report," are confusing at to
>transitivity. I believe that Okrand was using "tell" for all of the
>transitive examples above, and "report" for using {ja'} with the no-object
>prefixes.
De'vam vIqawbe'.
bIlughba'.
>
>--
>SuStel
>Beginners' Grammarian
>Stardate 97371.4
>
>
-- ter'eS