tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 04 00:46:37 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 00:45:32 -0800
At 17:06 98-02-01 -0800, SuStel wrote:
}Keep reading, I come up with something I think is really cool towards the
}bottom!
}
}Is it possible that the "Krankor Rule" actually came about BECAUSE Type 5'd
}nouns must always be the head noun?!?!? Every other Type 5 noun must be the
}head noun by its very nature. {-'e'} was left out all on its own. Perhaps
}over time, Klingons started to use {-'e'} in the same way as all of the
}other Type 5 nouns. That is, they thought, "Well, since any other Type 5
}noun in a relative clause means it must be the head noun, let's use {-'e'},
}another Type 5, to distinguish the head noun when it's NOT an oblique part
}of the main clause.
I know Krankor proposed this, but it's not in nay of my HolQeDmey. Perhaps
it is in the article in vol. 4 no. 2 referred to in the index. I must have
leafed through an issue at qep'a' and seen it. I KNOW Krankor has written
an article on it.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian