On 23 February 2017 at 07:07, Ed Bailey <bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com> wrote:
No, my argument that -lu'wI' might function as -ee in employee stems from the fact that if there's a -lu' on the verb, -wI' can't nominalize it as the subject, since there isn't any, so the next candidate is the object.
Why doesn't it turn the verb into its indefinite subject? For example: {Daqawlu'} "you are remembered" *{Daqawlu'wI'} - if I understand your claim, you would claim this means "you who are remembered" (i.e., the "rememberee"), but why doesn't this mean "whoever or whatever remembers you" (the "rememberer")? (I don't think you can stick a prefix like {Da-} and the suffix {-wI'} on the same verb, but while you're sticking {-lu'} and {-wI'} together, why not?) -- De'vID