[tlhIngan Hol] {-lIvIS}
Steven Boozer
sboozer at uchicago.edu
Thu Dec 22 07:23:41 PST 2016
TKD 43: This suffix [{-vIS}] is always used along with the Type 7 suffix {-taH} “continuous".
Just consider it one of Okrand’s “just because” rules. We could argue the whys and wherefores to death – and we often do! – but, in the end, we just have to accept it and move on.
In fact, I could only find only one example of {-vIS} and {-lI’} even occurring in the same sentence, albeit on different verbs:
ghobe' ! qarbejbogh DoDvam qontaH 'u'
jevqu'taHvIS muD ral, bejlI' parmaq.
Oh, no ! It [love] is an ever-fixed mark.
That looks on tempests and is never shaken. (Sonnet 116)
--Voragh
On Behalf Of mayqel qunenoS
I can't understand why the {-lIvIS} is illegal. Can't I be doing something, while something is proceeding towards a known goal or stopping point ?
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