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Re: Comparatives

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI' 'utlh)
Tue Nov 24 14:32:09 2009

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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:30:31 -0500
From: "ghunchu'wI' 'utlh" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Tracy Canfield <toastrix@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...TKD says -qu' may follow verbs functioning
> adjectivally, but it doesn't say other suffixes *can't* occur.

Read the section on adjectives again (it's short, I'll wait). :)

See there? It *does* say no other suffixes besides {-qu'} may be used.
Of course, we now know it to be too strong a prohibition. The real
rule is generally accepted to permit only *rovers* on verbs acting
adjectivally.

-- ghunchu'wI'




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