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

Robyn Stewart robyn at flyingstart.ca
Thu Feb 18 09:34:30 PST 2016


> > 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.

Indeed. I was going to follow up to ensure that our messages didn't look as
though they were contradicting one another, but I thought you original
message made it clear enough that these were special circumstances that
people would figure it out.




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