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Re: grammar question: verbs used adjectivally

David Trimboli ([email protected])

• From: David Trimboli <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: grammar question: verbs used adjectivally
• Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:50:31 -0400
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McArdle wrote:

> The way I read TKD, verbs used adjectivally can't
> carry any suffix other than a rover (e.g., {qu'})
> and/or a type 5 suffix transferred from the noun {e.g.
> {vaD}).  Is this correct?

bIlughlaw'. 'ej lengwI'pu''e' lo'vamvaD <<-qu'>> <<-be'>> joq neH 
lo'lu'law'.

> Incidentally, I also read TKD as prohibiting the use
> of a type 5 suffix on the head noun of a relative
> clause, so you couldn't express the same idea this way
> either:
> 
>   *{potlhlaw'bogh meqmeymo'} "for reasons that seem
> important"

QIj: qatlh Hat? pabchu' mu'tlheghvam.

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