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.

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