tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 17 11:27:37 1996
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Re: thursday:today
- From: Will Martin <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: thursday:today
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:27:45 -0400 ()
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On Mon, 17 Jun 1996 10:19:35 -0700 "Dr. Lawrence M.
Schoen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
jIQoch. lugh ~mark. bIQaghpu'. <ghaH> poQbe'lu', 'ach
<ghaH'e'> poQbe'bejlu'.
charghwI'
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Will Martin
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