tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 07 14:57:41 1995
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Apposition (was Re: Suppletion)
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Apposition (was Re: Suppletion)
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 17:57:43 -0500
Marc "Dochlangan" writes:
>
>by the way: the "Dochlangan" above is meant as an
>apposition "one from Dochlan". the Skybox cards
>left some confusion with me about that: names of
>things follow the noun as in "qIvo'rIt pagh", names
>of people precede the noun as in "qarghan HoD".
>the distinction is not very clear to me - if there
>was a word for "Mr." etc. would it precede the name
>or follow it?
We don't really know how to do apposition. {HoD} is a rank, and we
have seen that ranks follow names. {qIvo'rIt} is a class; apparently
classes precede names. This makes some sense; the {pagh} "belongs to"
the {qIvo'rIt} class, and owners precede what they own.
Is your hypothetical Klingon "Mr." a rank or a title? If it's a title,
it probably stands by itself in Klingon, and {qaH} is probably what you
would use. If it's a rank, it follows the name, like {HoD}.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj