[Tlhingan-hol] HuS

Rohan Fenwick qeslagh at hotmail.com
Sat Nov 21 20:01:29 PST 2015


jIghItlhpu', jIjatlh:
>gawd knows I wouldn't like to be pinned down on an opinion as
> to the appropriate syntax of {HuS} "hang".

mujang SuStel, jatlh:
> I think we'll eventually find that, like so many other 
> could-be-subject-could-be-object verbs, it can go either way at the need 
> of the speaker, and context makes the meaning clear.

Oh, I tend to think so too, leaving it to the verb's argument structure to disambiguate. All I meant is just that this is one of those examples where we have no canon support for prioritising one interpretation over the other.

QeS 'utlh
 		 	   		  
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