tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 14 20:43:27 1998
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Re: QoghIj qaD
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: QoghIj qaD
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 14:38:54 -0400
From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
>---Alan Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It will take some more explanation than the near-hearsay of Okrand's
>> statement that a "question" (not my quotes, but I'm not sure if they
>> are Okrand's either) cannot be used as an object before I will state
>> that {nuqDaq maba' DaneH?} is ungrammatical.
>
>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.
Duh. What took me a whole post to explain, took you one sentence.
mu'tlheghmeywIj vInapnISmoH!
>I guess the question is, can we group (nuq (vIje' vIneH)) instead of
>((nuq vIje') vIneH)? I don't think so.
Good way to look at it. (nuq (vIje' vIneH)) would be "what (I want to buy
it)," which certainly doesn't work. Looks like it might be a double object
or something (and one of them a question word, no less, another gray area in
the grammar). ((nuq vIje') vIneH) is most definitely our old friend Mr.
Question as Object.
SuStel
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