tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 15 08:12:10 2003
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Re: sentences 3/13/03 (was KLBC)
- From: "Sangqar (Sean Healy)" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: sentences 3/13/03 (was KLBC)
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:21:30 +0000
>If chepqu' does choose to use {-'e'} to emphasize {ghol}, watch out:
>there's a somewhat obscure grammar rule for verbs acting as adjectives.
>Take a look at TKD section 4.4, page 50. The type-5 noun suffix moves from
>the noun, to the end of an adjectival verb, so you'd have:
>
>{ghol lo'laH'e' vIHoy'}
This rule also applies to ordinal numbers (wa'DIch, cha'DIch, wejDIch,
etc.). Or at least it seems to. The sole example we have (as far as I
know) of Type 5 suffixes used on noun phrases with ordinal numbers puts the
suffix on the ordinal number. In a post to
msn.onstage.startrek.expert.okrand, MO wrote:
qep'a' wejDIchDaq jatlhtaH tlhIngan Hol HaDwI'pu'.
Sangqar
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