tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Apr 14 14:30:22 2002
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Re: to' nech, 036: {SomrawlIj tIleSchu'.}
From: "Sean M. Burke" <[email protected]>
> One of the things I find very hard to figure
> out even when I'm years into learning a language, is how/whether one-term
> predicates (X kroinks) can always/never/sometimes turn into two
> term-predicates (X kroinks Y) and/or vice versa, even then the predicate
is
> really describing the same action in both cases.
I don't have time to cite sources right now, but I can point out a few words
we've had confirmations (strong or weak):
"One-way" verbs:
Dub
X Dub Y
Y improves X
ghor
X ghor Y
Y breaks X
"Two-way" verbs:
mev
mev X
X stops
X mev Y
Y stops X
tagh
tagh X
X begins
X tagh Y
Y begins X
So'
So' X
X hides
X So' Y
Y hides X
There are certainly more (/pegh/ and /meQ/ require lengthy discussions).
There are also lots of words we don't know about yet. (tlhe', DIng, for
instance).
SuStel
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