tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Apr 01 20:20:24 2004
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'e' / about
- From: Dar'Qang <[email protected]>
- Subject: 'e' / about
- Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 22:40:39 -0600
SuStel:
>From: "Alan Anderson" <[email protected]>
>
>> ja' QeS lagh:
>> >I was just wondering whether something like {tlhIngan Hol'e' SoQ
>> >vImuch} would be legal, and not interpreted as a bad noun-noun
>> >construction.
>>
>> Why use {-'e'} at all?
>>
>> tlhIngan Hol SoQ vImuch - "I present a lecture about Klingon."
>
>
>I agree with ghunchu'wI', but to answer your question, yes, I'd consider
>your sentence legal. {tlhIngan Hol'e' SoQ} is an illegal noun-noun
>construction, so it can't be interpreted as one. The only >interpretation
>left is that {tlhIngan Hol'e'} is a topic, and {SoQ} is the object.
>
>(Not that someone can't make a mistake in interpretation, mind you.)
in:
<tlhIngan Hol'e' SoQ vImuch>
I don't understand the (grammatical) part of the sentence played by
{tlhIngan Hol'e'}.
I see:
Subject -> "jIH"
Object -> SoQ
verb -> much
And no way to include {tlhIngan Hol'e'} into the sentence once a noun-noun
construction becomes illegal.
Dar'Qang
bItaghbe'chugh bIrInbe'ba'