tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 30 18:30:37 1997

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Re: understanding {-lu'} (was Re: peDtaH 'ej jIQuch)



>Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 07:38:37 -0800 (PST)
>From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
>
>The only way I see them "handled differently" is that the null prefix 
>has been co-opted -- or corrupted? :-) -- to be able to indicate "no
>subject *and* no object".

You're right.  In that respect there IS something a little unusual about
the use of -lu' with intransitives.

~mark


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