On 7/5/2017 4:19 PM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
SuStel: *> jIHDaq ve' */> he travels on me/
He's riding on my back, or something like that. The destination is unstated. You can tell that *jIHDaq* is not the object of *ve'*because the verb prefix agrees with /he/she/it/they/none./ / / I fail to see how the {jIHDaq ve'} produces the "he travels on me". / /
According to the canon (or so I think) example of {bIQtIqDaq jIjaH} for "I go in the river/I am moving along the river" (HQ 7.4, Dec 1998), whenever we have the {-Daq} with a verb of movement, which verb of movement has a verb prefix indicating no object, then the {-Daq} indicates the location where the going takes place.
So, as I understand the example of {jIHDaq ve'} the meaning isn't "he travels (with a purpose) on me"; it is rather "he is traveling with a purpose in the vicinity of me".
If you're riding me, then I am the location where the traveling takes place. But you're right; it could also mean the traveling takes place on my body. Maybe a Lilliputian is walking from my head to my feet for an important reason. *jIHDaq ve'.* But the locative doesn't necessarily say that I am traversed, only that I am a location associated with the action. I don't think Okrand was trying to distinguish between those two in that HolQeD interview. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name