tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 18 09:01:49 1998
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RE: KLBC: third person possesive
- From: "Artist, Herbert" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: third person possesive
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:03:41 -0500
This seems to be a new language forum for educators, linguistics
specialists, and other professionals. Is that correct?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andeen, Eric [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 1998 06:02 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: RE: KLBC: third person possesive
>
> lab SIHwI':
>
> > In TKD we are given possesive suffixes for being capable of
> > speech, but only for first and second person. How would you
> > indicate a third person possesive for such things as "my
> > wife's father", or "his sister"?
>
> > Do we use the noun2 of noun1 construct?
>
> > *be'nalwI' vav* - "father of my wife"
> > *ghaH be'nI'* - "sister of him"
>
> You can use the regular third person possesive suffixes <-Daj> and <-chaj>
> for beings capable of using language. For some reason, Klingon does not
> have
> special third person possesive suffixes for beings capable of using
> language. It's just one of those strange things that makes the language
> seem
> more like a natural language than a constructed one.
>
> Of course, the possesive suffixes can only be used when the possesor is a
> pronoun, as in "His wife" or "Her father". For things like "My wife's
> father", you have to use the noun-noun possesive construction.
>
>
> pagh
> Beginners' Grammarian