tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 25 13:55:32 1996
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RE: Unspecified head nouns
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Unspecified head nouns
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 96 04:53:57 UT
jatlh Qob:
<<<
> (Which means I should get around to reading Christian
> Lehmann's 1000-page German monograph on relativisers. *sigh*)
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?
>>>
I'm not a {pabpo'} (as I understand the term), but I got excited because this
is the only example where there is a relative clause ({-bogh}) without a head
noun. It's been occasionally tried by newbies, and the rest of us have always
said, "I don't know if you can do that. I don't think so. Why not put {Doch}
or {Qu'} or whatever else may be appropriate in here for the head noun? Or
recast the sentence?" We may have been wrong.
SuStel
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