tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 12 07:49:26 1994
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Re: KLBC: Adverbials
>Date: Sat, 10 Dec 1994 01:26:32 -0500
>Originator: [email protected]
>From: "R.B Franklin" <[email protected]>
>Have you seen any canon examples that indicate whether you can negate
>adverbials?
The only canon example I know of which involves a negated adverbial shows
that you *can't* negate them that way. Recall Okrand's admonition to "eat
everything or you will die without honor". It's "Hoch DaSopbe'chugh vaj
batlh bIHeghbe'". Note that the "-be'" on the main verb can thus be
interpreted as negation of the *adverb*, not necessarily the verb. So how
to distinguish between this and "you will not-die with honor"? Context,
context. Same as English. You could work out a long-winded unambiguous
casting, but most of the time you wouldn't use it.
>Could you say:
>ghaytanbe' (unlikely)
>jaSbe' (similarly)
>pe'vIlHa' (gently)
I'd say no. "-Ha'" and "-be'" are verb-suffixes anyway; who said that
"ghaytan" was a verb?
>yoDtargh
~mark