<div dir="auto">lieven:<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">> We have had problems with that already when it comes to </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">> direct objects (cf. yIghojmoH)</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">What's the problem with {yIghojmoH} ?</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 Jul 2017 10:32 pm, "Lieven" <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de">levinius@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Am 06.07.2017 um 21:07 schrieb SuStel:<br>
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There sure is an example against this: <br>
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I was talking abut canon phrases as an example.<br>
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TKD's explicit pronouncement that *-be' *is not used with imperatives. <br>
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true.<br>
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Maybe Okrand meant it only can't be used to negate the sense of /do this!/ but he didn't say that.<br>
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That how I read it: commands are "do it" and to say "don't" use {-Qo'}<br>
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What we can be sure of is that {HIleghmoHbe'} is forbidden, because the -be' negates the command {HIleghmoH}, so we need -Qo' here.<br>
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So how about **yIta'vIpbe'?*<br>
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What about it? It seems clear to me: yIta'vIpQo'<br>
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TKD doesn't say you replace *-be'* with *-Qo'.*<br>
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It doesn't use the verb "replace", but it says<br>
/The suffix {-be'} cannot be used with imperative verbs. For imperatives, the following suffix is required: {-Qo'} "don't!, won't"/<br>
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It makes perfect, logical sense. But it's forbidden by TKD. Until such time as Okrand gives us an unambiguous example, <br>
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True.<br>
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After some thinking about that, I believe the problem is not so much within the -be' suffix, but more with the -moH. We have had problems with that already when it comes to direct objects (cf. yIghojmoH)<br>
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TKD says that be' cannot be used with "imperative verbs". Now taking this literally, I think that we have looked at the -moH part too closely. When giving a negative command, Qo' is used, but a verb with -moH makes it two "verbs" (or actions), where the "cause" is seen as an action, and this one is not negative.<br>
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Well, nevertheless, we won't know without asking Maltz.<br>
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