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why verbs with {-wI'} can't take prefixes (rehash)
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- Subject: why verbs with {-wI'} can't take prefixes (rehash)
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 00:24:27 EDT
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:14:43 GMT
To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: agentive -wI'
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> FWIW, I see no cause to "kill" any debate, short of Dr. Okrand specifically
> telling us what's what....
I do. My goal is to have people speaking the language, not just arguing over
how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. I serve that goal best when I
shut up and let charghwI' talk. I'm not proud of these outbursts, but I can't
stand and watch an environment full of beginners taking in arguments about
how
prefixes should be used with verbs with {-wI'} when I'm quite certain they
cannot, under any circumstances, ever be used. This is how we get a
generation
of people who can't speak the language well, babbling gibberish based on
ideas
that don't have any evidence behind them.
> -Sengval
Will
/end quote/
If we suppose that the prefix is added to the verb after all the suffixes are
added, then as soon as {-wI'} is in place, the word has become a noun, and so
of course it can't take a verbal prefix.
lay'tel SIvten
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