On 7/7/2017 12:35 PM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
SuStel:
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. This confuses me a little; is it legal to have an unmarked noun before the OVS ?
Certainly. Both time expressions and inherently locative nouns *(naDev, pa', Dat)* may go before the OVS. *wa'leS jImej* /I will leave tomorrow/ *naDev SoQmey vIjatlh*/I give speeches here /*pa' Heghpu'*/he died there/
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 ?
There's no actual rule against it, but I think it normally doesn't occur. It /does/ 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. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name