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Re: nom*i*nal*ize 2. to convert (an underlying clause) into a noun phrase

Doq ([email protected]) 

Or if you are concerned that he's starting to drink,  
{tlhutlhchoHghachDaj}. Or his excessive drinking {tlhutlhqu'ghachDaj}.  
Or his repeated binge drinking {tlhutlhqa'qu'ghachDaj}. Or the grace  
with which he carries his inebriation {tlhutlhchu'ghachDaj}.

Doq

On Sep 14, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> (So for "his drinking" I would say {tlhutlhtaHghachDaj}.)
>
> On 9/14/09, Mark J. Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
>> SuStel's analysis matches my thoughts.  *{quvghach} is wrong because
>> it's redundant, something like "honorness". But *{tlhutlhghach} is
>> wrong because it would mean the same thing as *{tlhutlh} the
>> nonexistent noun.
>>
>> I might use {-ghach} on bare stems if I had a need to translate into
>> Hol the slang habit of appending {-age} to words unnecessarily.  "How
>> about some snackage to go with the gameage?"
>>
>> On 9/14/09, David Trimboli <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Terrence Donnelly wrote:
>>>
>>>> What's interesting about these is that these are different types of
>>>> suffixes. From MO's description, it sounded like you couldn't use a
>>>> naked verb plus {-ghach} because some sort of time or state was
>>>> implied by {-ghach} that the naked verb didn't convey, so one had  
>>>> to
>>>> use one of the "aspectual" suffixes, such as {-taH} or {-qa'}. But
>>>> the only aspectual suffix in the above group is {-qa'}, and the
>>>> others are more like modal suffixes.  So maybe the need for an
>>>> intervening suffix is more of a formal requirement than something
>>>> inherent in the meaning of {-ghach}.
>>>
>>> I look at {-ghach} as a nominalizer that creates a new word stem.  
>>> TKD
>>> says something like (I don't have it with me), "It is not known if  
>>> all
>>> verbs can be nouns, but verbs with suffixes can never be nouns." In
>>> other words, it is looking at words like {quv} and {naD} and  
>>> saying that
>>> they may be verbs that have become nouns, but the verbs {quvHa'} and
>>> {naDHa'} (for instance) cannot ever be considered nouns. Using {- 
>>> ghach}
>>> lets you do exactly what you could do with {quv} and {naD}, but with
>>> suffixes attached as well. {quv} the verb became {quv} the noun,   
>>> but
>>> {quvHa'} the verb cannot become **{quvHa'} the noun, so you use {- 
>>> ghach}
>>> to explicitly mark that that's what you're doing: {quvHa'ghach}.
>>>
>>> In theory, there could be a noun *{tlhutlh}, but there isn't one,  
>>> and we
>>> know this explicity from KGT. But the existence of {-ghach} still  
>>> allows
>>> you to work with the verb as if it had a noun counterpart anyway,  
>>> but
>>> only for *new* noun stems. *{tlhutlh} is not a noun, so ** 
>>> {tlhutlhghach}
>>> is not a valid noun. It's considered marked, because ** 
>>> {tlhutlhghach}
>>> would equal *{tlhutlh}, which doesn't exist. And if it did exist,  
>>> you
>>> wouldn't need **{tlhutlhghach}. And since {quv} and {naD} both  
>>> exist as
>>> nouns, you don't need **{quvghach} or **{naDghach}. So {-ghach} is  
>>> only
>>> used where you are adding verb suffixes to create a new word stem.
>>>
>>> --
>>> SuStel
>>> tlhIngan Hol MUSH
>>> http://trimboli.name/mush
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Sent from my mobile device
>>
>> Mark J. Reed <[email protected]>
>>
>
> -- 
> Sent from my mobile device
>
> Mark J. Reed <[email protected]>
>
>
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