tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 17 10:14:37 1996
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Re: thursday:today
- From: "Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: thursday:today
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 10:14:37 -0700
I had written:
> >or if you want the second reading you can nicely illustrate the Type 5 noun
> >suffix for topics
>
> ><<qatlh maHvaD ja' ghaH'e'>>
to which Mark Shoulson responded:
> This also puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Seems to imply that I wwas
> expecting someone else to tell the story ("Why is it HE who told it to
> us?")
Hmm, that's certainly one interpretation (not the one that came to *my* mind,
but I'll grant it as viable, maybe even probably). However, as I noted
elsewhere, the use of ghaH is not so much for emphasis (admittedly, the
traditional use of a pronoun) but for clarity as we shift from one third person
subject to another. The use of the suffix -'e' is not for emphasis, it is for
topicalization. While the two are often confounded, one does not necessarily
imply the other.
Lawrence
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