On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 04:06:01PM -0500, SuStel wrote:
On 3/8/2019 3:17 PM, Will Martin wrote:
{rIntaH} also can follow a sentence to indicate that something is completely done.
Both of these instances involve the verb {rIn} without its own subject, object, or prefix indicating subject or object.
TKD says that *rIntaH* follows the verb. No examples of verbs with explicit subjects have occurred, so a strict reading of the text says that *vIje' rIntaH jIH* is more correct than *vIje' jIH rIntaH.* I would not be surprised if that weren't an absolute — but again, we have no data.
While that is what the text would imply, without explicit confirmation or contradiction from actual examples, I find myself wanting to default to the {vIje' jIH rIntaH} version, the main reason for this being the fact that {rIntaH} is marked as having a third person subject. My intuition is to treat this construction as essentially a shortening of {SENTENCE rIntaH 'e'}. - SapIr