[Tlhingan-hol] {-moH}
SuStel
sustel at trimboli.name
Sun Nov 22 18:08:30 PST 2015
On 11/22/2015 8:15 PM, chransberry at gmail.com wrote:
> This is a very interesting discussion, but I don't understand what all
> the confusion is about. If a causative suffix is added to a transitive
> verb, then of course there are two objects! There's the one being acted
> on, and the one being caused to act. And if they both appear in the same
> sentence, one has to distinguish between them somehow. Just throwing
> both into the object place would jam up the sentence. So one needs to be
> marked, in whatever way makes sense in the context; as a beneficiary or
> whatever. It's a matter of practicality, not syntax. How is this a problem?
jIQochbe'chu'.
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