tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 13 23:22:36 1998
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Re: QoghIj qaD
ja' Qov:
>I don't think it's ungramatical, but that's because I see it as {maba'
>DaneH} with a {nuqDaq} in its proper position to make the statement
>into a question.
Are you grouping it as {nuqDaq (maba' DaneH)) or ((nuqDaq maba') DaneH)?
I don't think the first one makes a lot of sense, and the second one
is pretty clearly a Sentence-As-Object pattern where the object is a
question.
>Coming in to the middle of this, I was baffled as to the intended
>meaning. {nuq vIje' vIneH?} */I want what do I feed?/ */I want what
>will I buy?/ In comparison to ?/nuqDaq maba' DaneH/ it looks like
>"what do I want to feed/buy" but that doesn't make much sense either.
"I want to buy what?"
>I guess the question is, can we group (nuq (vIje' vIneH)) instead of
>((nuq vIje') vIneH)? I don't think so.
I'm treating it as the latter. Yes, it's a question-as-object, but
it's one that follows the rules for the use of interrogatives.
-- ghunchu'wI'