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Re: Questions with law'/puS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Thu Jul 9 17:53:53 2009

Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:49:26 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <818369.77506.qm@web82603.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org

Terrence Donnelly wrote:
> --- On Thu, 7/9/09, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
>> It was in KGT, where Okrand is telling us about special exceptions
>> to the usual law'/puS construction. law'be'/puSbe' is a specially 
>> sanctioned formation, and not evidence of a general trend of using
>> verb suffixes.
> 
> Did he come out and say in KGT that there are no other allowable
> suffixes?

Nope.

>> It's special. It can't be interpolated or expanded. It must remain
>>  fixed. Period. Done. Game, set, and match. rIntaH.
> 
> Absence of evidence /= evidence of absence.

I didn't claim there was any evidence.

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