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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/7/2017 12:35 PM, mayqel qunenoS
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<pre wrap="">SuStel:
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<pre wrap="">It is using pa' as a non-subject, non-object noun placed before the OVS structure, and
Dab here has no object: some years ago, thereabouts, inhabitants inhabited (in general).
This is not actually ungrammatical, just a bit odd.
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<pre wrap="">This confuses me a little; is it legal to have an unmarked noun before the OVS ?</pre>
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<p>Certainly. Both time expressions and inherently locative nouns <b>(naDev,
pa', Dat)</b> may go before the OVS.<br>
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<p><b>wa'leS jImej</b> <i>I will leave tomorrow</i><br>
<b>naDev SoQmey vIjatlh</b><i> I give speeches here<br>
</i><b>pa' Heghpu'</b><i> he died there</i><br>
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<pre wrap="">And something else.. Would you accept as grammatically correct the
{pa' vIparHa'} for "I like the there" ? Can the {pa'} (in its meaning
as "there") be used as an object ?</pre>
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<p>There's no actual rule against it, but I think it normally
doesn't occur. It <i>does</i> occur with verbs of motion, because
they inherently treat their objects as locatives, but you don't
see this sort of thing with other verbs. A thing you like is not
an inherently locative concept. So whether it's grammatically
correct is unclear, but you're better off not trying to do it.<br>
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