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Re: paghHu'/paghleS

Agnieszka Solska ([email protected])

• From: "Agnieszka Solska" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: paghHu'/paghleS
• Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 20:34:07 +0000
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...Paul:

>>In English, "I go to bed" and "I go to the bed" mean very different 
>>things, but you couldn't deduce why or what the
>>difference was using only grammatical rules.
>
>Heehee, possibly a bad example.  "bed" is both a noun and a verb, and 
>grammatically those two sentences ARE different; you can identify the 
>latter as using a prepositional phrase with a noun because of the presence 
>of the "the".  The former is actually a purpose clause, and mirrors the 
>form of the less ambiguous "I go to sleep".

qaq'a' "He is in bed", "He is in the bed" je?

'ISqu'

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