tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 18 20:52:04 2007
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Re: jIHtaHbogh naDev vISovbe'
ja' SuStel:
> In the sentence
>
> pa'DajDaq ghaH HoD'e'
> The captain is in his quarters
>
> what English has as a preposition Klingon has, in my analysis, a
> nominal
> predicative.
The previously given definition of a nominal predicative says that it
"renames the subject". I don't see that happening in the sentence
you give here as an example. You can't use {pa'Daj}, with or without
{-Daq}, to refer to the same thing as {HoD}.
It might be possible to finesse things a bit, saying that {pa'DajDaq}
is describing {HoD'e'}, and thus call it an *adjectival*
predicative. That would let the term "predicative" apply anyway.
I'm still not comfortable using the word for this concept, though, as
it has an already established linguistic meaning which I don't think
matches the Klingon grammar well enough.
-- ghunchu'wI'