tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Apr 12 13:29:09 1997
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Re: KLBC
Michelle <[email protected]> writes:
>Does anyone know how case is assigned in Klingon...
Case assignment is implied by the position of the noun in the sentence.
See section 6.1 of The Klingon Dictionary: Objects precede the verb.
Subjects follow the verb. Anything that is not a subject or object
comes before the object; type 5 noun suffixes usually mark the role of
that other noun in the sentence.
>...and if there is noun phrase movement when
>constructing passives and questions?
Nope. Klingon sentence structure is always Object-Verb-Subject, except
for a few ritualized phrases used in toasts. Question words simply take
the place of where the answer would be in the sentence (with the exception
of {'ar} which follows the noun, while its answer is a number and precedes
the noun).
-- ghunchu'wI'