[87029] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Comparatives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tracy Canfield)
Tue Nov 24 14:10:31 2009
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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:08:56 -0500
From: Tracy Canfield <toastrix@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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2009/11/24 Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>:
> This analysis also makes sense in that verbs, when postposed after a
> noun, are essentially adjectives, and don't take prefixes or suffixes,
> as far as I can tell...
They'll take a few, but it seems very limited - TKD lists -qu', and
-be' and -Ha' have been observed in the wild. (I think -Ha' is
derivational anyway - at this point I'd be surprised to see a
construction where you can't use a verb with -Ha'.) The reason I say
"seems" is that TKD says -qu' may follow verbs functioning
adjectivally, but it doesn't say other suffixes *can't* occur.
