[Tlhingan-hol] mutually subordinate clauses?

David Trimboli david at trimboli.name
Tue Jun 5 08:55:03 PDT 2012


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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