tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 25 02:08:43 1995
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KLBC: Comparatives
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: KLBC: Comparatives
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 11:08:24 METDST
- Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]
jabbI'IDwIj yIlaD
I've tried to express some comparative sentences:
I am as big as you.
machHa'ghachlIj rap machHa'ghachwIj
My-un-small-ness equals your-un-small-ness.
You are not bigger than me.
SoH tIn law' jIH tIn puS 'e' temnISlu'
one-needs_to-deny
I am two years older than you.
cha' DIS jIH qan law' SoH qan puS
^^^^^^^^ is that sufficient?
Two thoughts on the 'less X than'-discussion:
You are less old than me.
QupHa'ghachlIj puS law' QupHa'ghachwIj puS puS
Your-un-young-ness is fewer than my-un-young-ness
It avoids the topic<->focus discussion but is
quite convoluted :(
>From the usual sentence structure Object precedes
Subject, wouldn't one infer that the original
meaning of A Q law' B Q puS IS indeed B is less
Q than A? That is you'd have to topicalize A to
emphasize A is more Q than B?
Marc Doychlangan
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Marc Ruehlaender [email protected]
Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, Germany
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