tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 19 05:35:26 2004
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Re: B SoH A'e'
From: <[email protected]>
> qar'a':
> be' Dun SoH be'nalwI''e'.
> you, my wife, are a wonderful woman.
>
> this is one example for the general case of using the other pronouns (jIH,
> maH, tlhIH) in pronoun-as-verb sentences.
What you have here is a sentence, {be' Dun SoH} "You are a wonderful woman,"
apposed with an emphasized word of address, {be'nalwI''e'} "MY WIFE." It is
not an example of the typical {X pro Y'e'} sentence.
Your sentence could be rewritten as {be'nalwI''e', be' Dun SoH} "My wife!
You are a wonderful woman."
In fact, I doubt that any non-third-person pronoun can couple two third
person noun phrases.
SuStel
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