[86645] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: The meaning of -moH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrence Donnelly)
Thu Oct 8 16:25:27 2009
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 13:22:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <4ACE0982.2010103@trimboli.name>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
--- On Thu, 10/8/09, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> 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
