23 Feb
2017
23 Feb
'17
6:51 a.m.
On 18 February 2017 at 05:24, Ed Bailey <bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, boy, the {-lu'} plus {-wI'} thing again! I so wish MO would finally rule on this, since it's immediately obvious to some this combination nominalizes the same way as "-ee" in "employee," but others regard the construction as grammatical gibberish, and they seem to have convinced most to avoid using it.
Count me among those who think it's gibberish. I don't see how it's immediately obvious that a suffix which indicates "no subject" and a suffix which turns a verb into its subject can be compatible. -- De'vID