tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 31 12:23:25 1997
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RE: RE: Qe'HommI'QeD
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: RE: Qe'HommI'QeD
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 97 20:22:46 UT
[email protected] on behalf of William H. Martin wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 1997 20:17:44 -0800 (PST) David Trimboli
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > You forgot that rule again about verbs of speech not being able
> > > to have aspect markers...
> >
> > There is no such rule.
>
> It's the same rule as the one about Sentence As Object. This
> seems to be the only thing quotations and SAS constructions have
> in common. It frustrated the hell out of me when I made this
> discovery and I tried to argue my way out of it, but Okrand is
> quite plain about it, if I remember correctly. Pardon me, but my
> butt hurts too much to find my TKD. Look in the section on SAS.
> It's there. Trust me. I wish it wasn't.
Since you don't have your TKD available, allow me to quote the appropriate
passage from it (page 67):
"An aspect marker [...] may always be attached to the verb of saying,
regardless of whether it is the first or second verb."
> > Douglas Adams paq 'ay' vImughta' 'e' Daparchugh qatlh DalaD? bIbepmeH
> > DalaD'a'? Qu' vItIvmo' paq 'ay' vImugh. DunuQchugh yIlaDQo'!
>
> mu'meywIj Daparchugh qatlh DalaD? bIbepmeH DalaD'a'?
> motlh ghItlhmeylIj vItIvmo' QInlIj vIlaD. DunuQchugh yIlaDQo'!
SeymoH QeH. 'e' vISaHbej.
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