On 3/5/2019 10:03 AM, Daniel Dadap wrote:
On Mar 5, 2019, at 08:56, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:

On 3/5/2019 9:35 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
If we say:

{tlhInganpu' romuluSnganpu' chevchuqmoH qeylIS}

I don't think the sentence is meaningful. -chuq means the subject is plural and does the verb to each other. It doesn't work for the object.


But the {-moH} is important here. If the object of a {-moH}ed verb can be the subject of the action being {moH}ed, I think it could be meaningful in the same way {Qo'noS tuqmey muvchuqmoH qeylIS} is. {qeylIS} is the singular subject of {muvchuqmoH}; the {tuqmey} are the plural object of {muvchuqmoH} which makes them into the plural subject of {muvchuq}.

Here we go again. In mayqel's proposed sentence, tlhInganpu' and romuluSnganpu' are not the subjects of anything. qeylIS is the only subject anywhere. tlhInganpu' and romuluSnganpu' might be considered as entities that perform chevchuq, but the verb isn't chevchuq, it's chevchuqmoH. The suffix -chuq doesn't mean whoever is performing an action performs it on each other; it means whoever is the subject does the verb on each other. In this sentence, the subject is not performing the action; he is causing the action to be performed.

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