tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 04 00:46:31 1998
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Re: Locatives and {-bogh} (was Re: KLBC Poetry)
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Locatives and {-bogh} (was Re: KLBC Poetry)
- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 00:45:25 -0800
At 20:12 98-02-02 -0800, SuStel wrote:
}Besides, {qachDaq tIn} ISN'T hard to understand by any means.
qachDaq tIn nuq? :)
Hard and easy to understand are determined by what we have learned already.
Lots of people on this list, and almost everyone in the world who isn't, find:
{yaSpu'vaD yIH vInobqang}
very damn difficult to understand.
I read {qachDaq tIn} and immediately start looknig for the subject of {tIn}.
}It just
}happens to be wrong, but not because it MUST be. Okrand decreed that {-Daq}
}migrates, and so it does. He might even have been thinking in terms of
}postpositions, but there is a good deal of difference between adjectivally
}acting verbs and relative clauses.
}
}Until Okrand makes a new decree one way or the other, I see no reason to
}alter known rules and examples in favor of HUMAN language patterns.
Mark's arguments about stacks hold a lot of weight for me. I don't think
that's just human.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian