[87082] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: The topic marker -'e'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Tue Nov 24 21:08:33 2009
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From: "ghunchu'wI'" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:07:41 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On Nov 24, 2009, at 8:32 PM, Christopher Doty wrote:
> The original discussion was, I think, about
> S's and A's, and these ARE different: intransitive verbs take S
> prefixes, and transitive verbs take A/O prefixes, so the distinction
> between S and A is important.
That looks like a tautology, and it looks incomplete at best. It
doesn't say anything about the actual subjects. Is there really a
distinction between the kinds of subject in the two sentences {jISop}
and {vISop}? {jISop} bears the same prefix as {jIbIr}; do they have
the same sorts of subjects?
-- ghunchu'wI'
