[Tlhingan-hol] Objects, direct and indirect

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On 27 November 2015 at 13:13, Rohan Fenwick <qeslagh at hotmail.com> wrote:
> ghItlhpu' ghunchu'wI', jatlhpu':
>> 1) I believe {SeymoH QeH} is a counterexample.
>
> jang janSIy, jatlh:
>> chay'! Not so much a counter example, as an example from completely
>> outside the
>> realm of my considerations. So perhaps we can also say things like,
>> {DoqmoH
>> rItlhvam} "this paint reddens," {ghungmoH mI'} "dancing makes you hungry,"
>> {bommoH QoQ} "music causes singing," etc.

QeS 'utlh:
> Absolutely so. Remember also {HeghmoH}, glossed explicitly in TKD (p.88) as
> "be fatal". Literally, this would be "cause (things in general) to die", so
> we should be perfectly capable of saying things like {pIj HeghmoH ropvam}
> "this disease is often fatal".

All monovalent verbs, though. Any evidence for or against, e.g.,
{SopmoH lop} "the celebration causes eating", or {SuvmoH SoQ} "the
speech causes fighting"?

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