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Re: {'Iv}

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: {'Iv}
• Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:05:47 EDT

In a message dated 2004-08-27 12:34:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> Do you consider a sentence such as
> /tlhIngan maH/ as "verbless"?  Do you consider /HIja'/ a sentence unto
> itself?
> 
> 

{tlhIngan maH} has a verb.  It's the pronoun {maH}.  {HIja'} is a complete 
utterance, and in some sense could be called a sentence, but only in a very 
broad sense, and not in the sense we normally think of, i.e., the much narrower 
sense of subjects and predicates.

lay'tel SIvten

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