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Re: lojmItDaq puqbe'wI' vIlegh.

David Trimboli ([email protected])

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: lojmItDaq puqbe'wI' vIlegh.
• Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:13:43 -0500
• References: <[email protected]>

From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:03 AM
Subject: lojmItDaq puqbe'wI' vIlegh.


> In a message dated 2004-03-30 8:44:45 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
> > > lojmItDaq puqbe'wI' vIlegh.
> > >
> > I have always had the impression that {-Daq} marks the location of the
> > action of the verb:
> >
> > I read your sentence as meaning that the one doing the seeing is
standing at
> > the door.
> >
> > --ngabwI'
> >
> i have to agree.  otherwise it's the cat in the hat problem.

No it's not.  "The cat in the hat" problem would, I suppose, be the fact
that you can't use Type 5 noun suffixes on the first noun of a noun-noun
construction.  Krankor's *{mIvDaq yIH} "tribble in the helmet" is therefore
illegal.

QeS lagh has already shown how this is the "I shot an elephant in my
pajamas" problem, and it's not really a problem, just something vague.

There are no rules as to where the subject or agent must be when a locative
exists in the sentence.

SuStel
Stardate 4245.4

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