RE: -bogh and -wI'

["Andeen, Eric" <Eric.Andeen@Sequencia.com>]

jIjatlh:
>Do' yaplaw'mo' vIlughnISbe'moH.

jatlh muHwI':
> {-be'} is a Rover, why do you choose to put it there?
> I would have put it at the end. Or do I understand it 
> in the wrong way? ("not need to correct it")

I put the <-be'> after <-nIS>, so it negates the <-nIS>. I think part of the
problem is that we really want the <-moH> to go right after the verb so we
can think of <lughmoH> as a single unit, but the language doesn't work that
way. If the suffixes had to be interpreted in strict order, <vIlughnISmoH>
could only mean "I cause it to need to be correct", which is a whole lot
less useful than "I need to correct it". Fortunately, while the suffix order
is fixed, the order in which the *meanings* of the suffixes apply is
flexible.

In any case, here is how I see the difference between various placements of
<-be'>

vIlughbe'nISmoH 
I need to make it not correct - almost the opposite of what I meant.

vIlughnISbe'moH 
I do not need to make it correct / I do not need to correct it - perfect.

vIlughnISmoHbe' 
I do not cause it to need to be correct ??!?!? - this one doesn't make any
sense to me.


pagh
Beginners' Grammarian