tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 24 22:35:23 1996
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Re: Unspecified head nouns
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Unspecified head nouns
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 00:38:24 -0500
Bill Willmerdinger writes:
>Could one of you pabpo'pu' explain for the rest of us what is so bad about
>this? It seems clear enough to me what {Dajatlhbogh vIyajbe'} means... am I
>missing something?
Does it mean "you who speak" or "[something] which you speak"?
The ambiguity is not insurmountable, but every other example of
{-bogh} has an explicitly stated head noun.
If (as SuStel has suggested) this audio clip indeed is not used
in the Language Lab, I would consider it the equivalent of a
scrap of paper stuck to the side of a notebook. It might even
conceivably be missing a word or two at the beginning. If it's
not actually used anywhere, I'm not going to use it as permission
to use headless relative clauses.
-- ghunchu'wI'