tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 07 17:48:45 1997
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Re: Return to school
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Return to school
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 17:48:40 -0700 (PDT)
At 04:12 PM 9/7/97 -0700, peHruS wrote:
>Qov stated that all verbs other than {neH} require a sentence-as-object
>construction. This is not accurate. Verbs of speaking act as does {neH}, in
>directly conjoined phrases. All other verbs take the sentence-as-obejct
>construction.
I wrote:
Qov> For all verbs except {neH}, if you want to make something expressed by
Qov> another verb the object of the sentence, you need the sentence as object
Qov> construction.
My statement was accurate. Yours is not. The object of a verb of speaking
is not the sentence spoken. {neH} and verbs of speaking may be, as you put
it, "directly conjoined." So may {rIntaH}.
chotlhoch DaneHchugh mu'meyna'wIj tItlhoch 'ej yIqar SoH. pItlh.
Qov ([email protected])
Beginners' Grammarian