On 12/22/2018 6:50 PM, Daniel Dadap wrote:
I asked this question on the Discord server a while back and got an opinion, but I wondered about it again recently, so I was curious to hear other opinions.
Can the prefix trick be used with -lu'? For example,
vIleghlu': I was seen
Or do we have to make the indefinite subject explicit, with vay':
mulegh vay': Somebody saw me
I don't understand how this has anything to do with the prefix trick. *vIleghlu'* is the normal way to say /I am seen*./ The prefix trick becomes involved when you're using a verb prefix to indicate an indirect object instead of a direct object. I suppose the question might be whether something like *jIHvaD ghaH chuplu'*/He is recommended to me /could be altered via the prefix trick: would it be *ghaH vIchuplu'?* I don't see any technical reason why it couldn't be done, but as you say, it has never been seen in canon so there's no supporting evidence for it either. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * /I was seen/ would normally be expressing a single instance of being seen, rather than a general state of being seen or anything like that, and would usually appear as *vIleghlu'pu'.* -- SuStel http://trimboli.name