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Re: Questions with law'/puS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Wed Jul 15 20:35:33 2009
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From: "ghunchu'wI'" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:32:20 -0400
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On Jul 15, 2009, at 10:49 AM, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
> In the course of our discussion, I came to realize that many of you
> interpret the {law'/puS} verbs as purely adjectival,...
My own sense of things should carry no weight with others, but I
actually get the feeling that they are more *adverbial* than anything
else. They're apparently modifying the Q verb, which is acting like
an adjective to describe the A and B nouns. This personal intuition
is purely tangential, speculative, and unimportant. The only
important thing to note is that we've been given a formula, some
specific variations, and limited license to improvise in one minor
fashion. We have not been given any hint that we can add type 9 verb
suffixes to the formula.
-- ghunchu'wI'
