tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 30 12:11:37 1993
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Relative Clauses and suffixes
- From: (Mark E. Shoulson) <[email protected]>
- Subject: Relative Clauses and suffixes
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 93 14:12:54 -0400
- In-Reply-To: Randall Holmes's message of Tue, 29 Jun 93 18:40:17 -0600 <[email protected]>
>From: Randall Holmes <[email protected]>
>Date: Tue, 29 Jun 93 18:40:17 -0600
>Content-Length: 222
>If a noun is followed by a relative clause, does a type 5 suffix
>then attach to the main noun or to the end of the clause?
>Is it
>ghaH vIqIpboghvaD
>or
>ghaHvaD vIqIpbogh
>for
>for the sake of he/she/it that I hit?
"-vaD" is a noun-suffix. "qIp" is a verb, even when it's got "-bogh"
attached to it. So the "-vaD" has to attach to the noun (puqvaD vIqIpbogh,
for the child whom I hit).
~mark