tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 09 05:12:46 2004
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Re: joj usage...
- From: "De'vID jonwI'" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: joj usage...
- Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 08:12:05 -0400
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qurgh:
>>>I guess the bigger question in my mind now is: Can a list of nouns
>>>linked by a conjunction still act as a the first noun in a noun-noun
>>>constuction?
Voragh:
>>AFAIK, there are no known examples of the case you have in mind. (Can
>>anyone else think of one?)
Dar'Qang:
>Setting aside the issue about whether or not prefix-implied pronouns can
>serve as {-bogh} clause head nouns, the follow fragment from the Warriors'
>Anthem:
>
>yoHbogh matlhbogh je SuvwI'
>
>Seems to be implicitly using [noun noun {je} noun].
I see this as a [verb1-bogh verb2-bogh je noun], where
[noun] is the subject of both [verb1] and [verb2].
Q: SuvwI' yIDel!
A: yoH. matlh je.
Q: vaj nuq ghaH?
A: yoHbogh matlhbogh je SuvwI'!
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De'vID
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