[Tlhingan-hol] Dhammapada 183

Robyn Stewart robyn at flyingstart.ca
Fri Apr 27 19:46:44 PDT 2012


At 16:34 '?????' 4/27/2012, Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh wrote:

>ghItlhpu' Qov, jatlh:
> > In {SoHvaD tlhIngan Hol vIghojmoH} the lesson learned isn't
> > really the object of the verb.
>
>jang ghunchu'wI', jatlh:
> > There's room for debate on the exact nuances of grammar at work, but
> > what else but the object could it be?
>
>jang je Qov, jatlh:
> > What I suppose I meant was, "the lesson learned only gets to be the
> > object of the verb because the student is hiding under the -vaD.
> > Ordinarily the student should be the object of ghojmoH."
>
>That's English talk. :) I'd argue it goes the other way: the student
>can only sneak up the sentence hierarchy to direct object when there's
>no other direct object to block it doing so. A while ago ghunchu'wI'
>suggested it might be a parallel to the prefix trick, which makes some
>sense to me.

The verb is {ghojmoH}. ghojlaHbe' paQDI'norgh. ghojlaH ghojwI' neH. 
vaj ghojwI' ghojnISlu'.




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