tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 24 22:24:30 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: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 22:23:38 -0800
At 15:46 98-01-23 -0800, you wrote:
}ghItlh ter'eS:
}
}>But I'd forgotten the {meQtaHbogh...} example. It looks to me like
}>this sentence is trying to use a noun in two different modes at once:
}>{meQtaHbogh (qach/qachDaq) Suv}, where the noun is the subject of the
}>inner verb but locative in relation to the outer verb. How is this
}possible?
}
}First - how it is possible? MO says so. Why it is possible is the
}question...
}
}Apparently, adding <-Daq> to a head noun (1) marks it just like <-'e'> does
}(2) makes the noun phrase represented by the <-bogh> expression into a
}locative. I have long suspected it would be logical to mark head nouns with
}"any" Type 5. (Without any proof whatsoever. What else is new?)
Krankor thinks so too. I think he did a FGD on it.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian