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Re: {-lu'} on intransitive verbs [WAS Re: The topic marker -'e']
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI' 'utlh)
Fri Nov 27 12:43:52 2009
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Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:41:16 -0500
From: "ghunchu'wI' 'utlh" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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TKW 125: {yInlu'taH 'e' bajnISlu'} "Survival must be earned."
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 08:17, ghunchu'wI' <qunchuy@alcaco.net> wrote:
>>
>> There indeed is something like nominalization going on here, but it's
>> the {'e'} that does it. It serves its normal purpose of standing in
>> for the action of the first sentence, as the object of the second
>> sentence.
>
> No, it's not.
Then what *is* it doing? HItlhochQo' neH. yIQIj.
-- ghunchu'wI'
