[93592] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Time and Type 7 verb suffixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Fri Jun 8 10:36:38 2012
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:36:25 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <BAY166-W1918F69B985091ECFCEF7AAAF20@phx.gbl>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On 6/8/2012 3:16 AM, Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh wrote:
>
> I've been largely staying out of this argument for a number of reasons, mainly the
> fact that it's got heated more than once and I'm not up for a seriously protracted
> argument. However, there's one minor tangential point that canon doesn't back up.
>
> ghItlhpu' SuStel, jatlh:
>> puchpa'Daq jIHtaH
>> I was in the bathroom.
>> I was inhabiting the bathroom over a span of time.
>> **Note that whenever Okrand uses -Daq<pro> to describe the location of
>> a movable object, he uses {-taH}, whereas whenever he describes the
>> location of a permanent object he uses no aspect suffix.**
>
> Not quite "whenever".
[snip examples]
Good catches. I had a feeling things weren't as simple as that in the
locative-and-pronouns.
--
SuStel
http://www.trimboli.name/
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