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RE: moHaq nap, moHaq Qatlh ghap

Heather Myers ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol ghojwI']



> ghItlhpu' jIqel ghojwI':
> 
> >When you add the suffix -wI' to a verb, it becomes a noun. (TKD
3.2.2,
> >p. 20)  Verb prefixes may not be added to nouns.  I don't see how
there
> >can be an argument about this.
> 
> Since verb prefixes are part of every bare verb, why wouldn't they be
> part of a verb to which {-wI'} is added?

Because 'zero prefix' means 'there is no prefix' (TKD p. 33: "0 in the
chart means that the particular subject-object combinations are
indicated by the absence of a prefix before the verb...").

> QeS lagh

jI'qel ghojwI'
<batlh wo' yejHaD je vItoy'mo' jIHem>

(And I seem to have somehow neglected to correct the misspelling of my
name in my own signature.  jIDoghqu'bej.)

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