[87073] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Comparatives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Doty)
Tue Nov 24 20:38:03 2009
In-Reply-To: <4B0C8855.6070802@trimboli.name>
From: Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:36:14 -0800
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
> No, that'd be just {lamHa'}. {waqmey lamHa'} "cleaned shoes." (Not
> {waqmey Say'} "clean shoes," because {lamHa'} carries the implication
> that they were previous dirty.)
Sure, forget the subject prefix. If waq lamHa' is okay, then that is
the only point I was trying to make: it demonstrates that something
other than -qu' and -Daq can go on verbs, at least other rovers.
>> You can do this with relative clauses, of
>> course, I'm just curious. I admit that the sentence I put up earlier
>> wouldn't work with that space, but I still wonder about the original
>> question: can other stuff go on verbs used as adjective?
>
> Not according to any rule we've ever been given or any example we've
> ever seen. Only rovers. If you want other stuff, use relative clauses.
Okay, sure, but there is nothing that says we can't use -Ha' on the
end of a verb used as an adjective.
