tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Sep 08 06:06:23 1994
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Re: KLBC: Blood of the vanquished
>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
>Date: Thu, 8 Sep 94 13:24:48 EDT
[Very nice explanation of "-'e'" as head-noun disambiguator deleted]
>'avwI' jeybogh qama''e' loDnI' "The brother of the prisoner,
>who defeated the guard". Note that in Klingon, it is clear
>that it is the prisoner and not the brother who defeated.
There may be a problem with this. See Section 3.4. According to TKD,
"When the noun-noun construction is used, only the second noun can take
syntactic suffixes (Type 5)." We used this idea here and there to make
apposition more palatable by using type 5 suffixes on both nouns to show
they were not in noun-noun constructions. True, in this case it might be
that the "-'e'" here doewsn't quite "count," since it's on for a different
reason, and maybe Okrand just didn't think of "-'e'" in this case (he
obviously wanted to keep out "-Daq" and such), but TKD's word is as
presented.
>charghwI'
~mark