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Re: S99

ngabwI' ([email protected])

• From: "ngabwI'" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: S99
• Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 08:33:24 -0400
• References: <[email protected]>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 9:24 PM
Subject: KLBC: S99

> QU'
> loS... qIb HeHDaq, 'u' SepmeyDaq
> Sovbe'lu'bogh lenglu'meH He
> ghoSlu'bogh retlhDaq 'oHtaH.
> HaDlu'meH, QuSlu'meH, SuDlu'meH
> lojmIt Da logh Hop Hut tengchaH.
> vaj loghDaq lenglaHtaH Humanpu'.
> veH Qav 'oH logh'e'.

> What is the head noun that {Sovbe'lu'bogh} refers to?

{'u' Sepmey}

> {-lu} indicates that
> it has no subject;

Correct.

> it also has no explicit object, since there are no nouns
> preceding it which can be an object

Incorrect. See above.

> What is the role of {lenglu'meH He}?  It looks like it can only be the
object
> of {ghoSlu'bogh}.

Correct again,

>  Does {lenglu'meH He ghoSlu'bogh} make sense?

Yes: "A course for traveling that is gone along." The English is clumsy, but
this sentence is not illegal.

> {retlhDaq} has to come at the beginning of a clause, since it is an
> adverbial.

Not quite. The only things that *must* come at the beginning of a sentence
are a "timestamp" or an adverbial. {retlhDaq} is a "position stamp", if you
will, not an adverbial. According to TKD, the order of elements like these
is unimportant. {-Daq} statements can come at the beginning or the end.

--ngabwI'
Beginners' Grammarian
Klingon Language Institute
http://kli.org
HovpoH 701828.1

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