tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 08 13:24:52 2009
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Re: The meaning of -moH
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: The meaning of -moH
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 13:22:41 -0700 (PDT)
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--- On Thu, 10/8/09, David Trimboli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Overall, I agree with the point: there is some evidence
> that syntactic
> differences exist among verbs, though the evidence is not
> conclusive, or
> even necessarily convincing. If true, verbs may fall into
> one of three
> classes: verbs of action that can take objects; verbs of
> action that
> cannot take objects; and verbs of quality, which cannot
> take objects.
Really, just two classes: one in which the subject performs the action on an object, and one in which the subject experiences the action or the quality of the verb.
-- ter'eS