tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 15 08:46:33 1999
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Re: -moH Curiousity {was Re: deep structures}
ghItlh jey'el:
>
> SIv ter'eS:
> > I'm proposing (and hoping) that for the majority of verbs, adding /-moH/
> > has the regular and predictable result of adding a new noun role to the
> > verb without changing any of the old ones, but I am certainly open to
> > the idea that some verbs are exceptions to the rule (of course, if there
> > turn out to be more exceptions than not, I'll have to trash the rule!).
>
> HIja'. DaH wotmey pIm lo'bogh latlh chovnatlhmey vInuD.
> (DInuDta'DI', vay' wIghojta' 'e' vIQub.)
>
> a. /SoHvaD jagh SuvmoH yaS/ : /jagh DuSuvmoH yaS/
> "The officer makes you fight the enemy."
> b. /jagh SuvmoH yaS/ "The officer makes (someone) fight the enemy".
>
> -> -> NOT "The officer makes the enemy fight (someone)."
>
> c. /SuvmoH yaS/ "The officer makes (someone) fight him/them".
> rurchu'law'
> d. /SuvmoH yaS/ "The elder makes (someone) fight."
/qup/?? 8+)
> e. /SoHvaD SuvmoH yaS/ : /DuSuvmoH yaS/ "The officer makes you fight
> him/them."
> rurchu'law'
> f. /DuSuvmoH yaS/ "The officer makes you fight."
>
> chovnatlh b. wIqeltaHvIS, SuQoch'a'? SuQochbe''a'?
jIQochbe'chu' jIH.
> SuQochbe'chugh, vaj vuDwIj vIchoHnISbej.
> lughchugh ngervam, ghaytan muj chovnatlh ???/puq ghojmoH qup/ vIchupbogh
> 'ej ghaytan lugh /puqvaD ghojmoH qup/.
>
lugh chovnatlh cha'DIch 'e' vIHar.
> SKI: I'm about convinced to change my mind about "teach", if the above example
> is right.
>
> --jey'el
I'd just caution that we may want to come to a consensus about the full
form
of a transitive /-moH/ sentence before we try to decide how the prefix
trick
applies to it.
-- ter'eS