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Re: intuition and grammar (was Re: Ditransitive reflexives)

Terrence Donnelly ([email protected]) [KLI Member]




--- On Sat, 10/31/09, Christopher Doty <[email protected]> wrote:

> <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Actually, only used with subjects; verbs with {-chuq}
> have no objects.
> 
> Right, because -chuq indicates that the subject and the
> direct object
> are the same.  It doesn't indicate, though, that the
> subject and the
> indirect object are the same.
> 
> > I wish we'd get off this "ditransitive" topic, which
> has really had no relevance to this discussion for a long
> time, > especially to someone who, like me, doesn't
> really buy the notion of ditransitive verbs in English, in
> the first
> > place.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean about not buying the concept in
> English,
> but the question remains: how would one say "they gave
> themselves
> chocolate" in Klingon?
> 

Maybe it's just not possible; but if it is, it probably doesn't involve (-chuq}.

-- ter'eS







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