[Tlhingan-hol] KLBC: {-mo'} noun suffix vs. {-mo'} verb suffix

[SuStel]

On 2/18/2016 11:55 AM, Robyn Stewart wrote:
>> ok, thanks ! So, and in order to be 100% certain I will ask :
>>
>> Whenever the -mo' noun suffix migrates to the end of a noun - be
>> verb pair, the resulting construction needs to come first in the
>> sentence. So far so good. Does the same apply when the rest of the
>> type 5 noun suffixes are concerned ? For instance will the
>> constructions {noun - be verb}Daq, {noun - be verb}vo', {noun - be
>> verb}vaD need to be placed too at the beginning of the sentence ?
>
> It's not necessarily at the beginning of the sentence, but will be at
> the beginning of the clause. A noun marked with -Daq, -vaD, or -vo'
> can't be the subject or object of a verb, so it has to go before the
> OVS.

Nouns with {-Daq} can be the object of a verb if the verb includes an 
inherent locative sense, like {jaH} or {ghoS}.

The others aren't strictly illegal as such, but they're probably 
meaningless most of the time, except perhaps under very special 
circumstances. We've never seen any examples, so don't do it unless 
you're trying to be clever.

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