[93519] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] mutually subordinate clauses?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Tue Jun 5 11:55:16 2012
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 11:55:03 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <AB7C3E25-F570-461E-9C0C-28212B58F44E@gmail.com>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On 6/5/2012 11:45 AM, lojmIt tI'wI'nuv wrote:
> You are skipping over the word "usually" in your own quote and putting
> more weight on the statement than it can hold. You are loading it with
> words like "required" and "cannot".
>
> So, if I write of my wife and say:
>
> pIj jatlhtaH.
>
> According to you, that's a single episode. Never mind the adverbial. I
> have an aspect marker, therefore I MUST be talking about a single event,
> right?
Having aspect doesn't mean the verb must describe a single episode;
lacking aspect means the verb can't be describing a single episode in
its entirety.
> Or if I complain that I generally don't get enough sleep because
> of my bad bed:
>
> QongDaqwIjmo' not jIQongchu'ta'.
>
> Again, you would insist that I'm talking about a specific ocurance.
No, I wouldn't.
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