[Tlhingan-hol] KLBC: Beginner's One-Sentence Story Game

[SuStel]

On 2/19/2016 9:50 PM, qov at kli.org wrote:
>> -vaD does mean "for the benefit of." But with verbs of speaking it
>> is simply used to mark the one being talked to. (I.e., it marks the
>> indirect object.)
>
> Also, "the beneficiary" of an action does not necessarily benefit
> from that action. It just affects them in a way other than it affects
> the direct object.

Yup. As TKD says, {-vaD} indicates "the person or thing for whom or for 
which the activity occurs." "Activity," of course, can also be read as 
"state" or "quality," since those kinds of verbs can also work with {-vaD}.

If I say something TO someone, that someone is the person for whom the 
activity occurs. Hence {-vaD}.

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