tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 17 01:44:06 1997
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priceless (was: Re: KLBC: names)
- From: "Anthony.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
- Subject: priceless (was: Re: KLBC: names)
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 09:43:48 GMT
- Organization: Materials Science Centre
- Priority: normal
"William H. Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:-
> [for "priceless" try:-]
> ngev - He sells it
> ngevlu' - one sells it
> ngevlu'Qo' - one refuses to sell it
> ngevlu'Qo'wI' - one which one refuses to sell
"Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]> replied:-
> The last step in that doesn't follow. "-lu'" indicates that the subject of
> the sentence is indefinite. So there's no stated subject ... "-wI'" ... says
> that the subject is the thing we're talking about ...
This thread seems to have amalgamated with the current <ghunlu'wI'> thread
about whether or not {-lu'} is enough like a passivizer to divert the {-wI'}
from subject to object, same as {-lu'} makes the pronoun prefix agreement
treat the object as the subject.