tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 14 06:50:11 1997
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Re: Type 7 suffix and {-jaj}
- From: "Anthony.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Type 7 suffix and {-jaj}
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 14:49:49 GMT
- Organization: Materials Science Centre
- Priority: normal
"David Trimboli" <[email protected]> wrote:-
> ... If verbs with {-jaj} never take an aspect suffix (TKD pp. 175-6), how
> come we can say {wo' DevtaHjaj ghawran} (KGT p. 26)?
Perhaps when Marc Okrand wrote that TKD rule, he thought "{X-jaj} means that I
wish X would happen, therefore X is not happening already now or there would
be no point me wishing. {X-taH} means that X is happening now (or at the
current running narration point). Therefore {X-taHjaj} contradicts itself and
is impossible.", not realizing until later that {X-taHjaj} could make sense
and mean "X is happening; I wish X would keep on happening.".