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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/10/2019 10:37 AM, Ed Bailey wrote:<br>
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<div>Back to <b>SIch</b>, it seems clear it differs from <b>paw</b>
in that only a body part or implement is used to arrive at its
object. I think another difference is what the progressive
aspect means. Compare reaching for a book and a train going to a
city or a station. As soon as someone begins to reach for a
book, regardless of his ultimate success, I'd say he <b>SIchtaH</b>
or <b>SIchlI'</b>. But I would only say <b>pawtaH</b> of a
train that is entering the city or pulling into the station.</div>
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<p>The continuous and progressive aspects are used when a sentence
is meant to express continuousness or progressiveness. <b>paq
vISIch: </b>I stretch my hand to the book. I'm not saying
anything about how it is done, just that it is what I do. <b>paq
vISIchtaH</b> I am in the middle of the ongoing act of
stretching my hand to the book. <b>paq vISIchlI'</b><i> </i>I am
in the middle of the ongoing act of stretching my hand to the
book, and it'll be over when my hand has grasped the book. Any of
the three sentences could be used to describe the same
circumstance; what matters is how I want to describe it happening.<br>
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<div>Here are two more things about SIch I'd like clarified.</div>
<div>Can it be used with the body part or implement as its
object? <b>?chabHom bal qoD ghopwIj vISIch</b> <i>I reach my
hand into the cookie jar</i>.</div>
<div>Or can the body part or implement be the subject? <b>?chabHom
bal qoD SIch ghopwIj</b> <i>My hand reaches into the cookie
jar.</i></div>
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<p><b>SIch</b> seems to take the thing reached for as its object, so
the first one is probably not right. The subject seems to be the
entity that causes some extension of itself to move toward the
thing reached for, so using a body part or implement as the
subject is questionable. I'd stick to the known interpretation
unless more information were forthcoming. <b>paq vISIch; tlhapmeH
jan vIlo'</b><i> I use the grabber to reach for and take the
book.</i><br>
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