tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 10 14:43:45 1995
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Re: help!
Just adding a wee bit of specification to ghunchu'wI''s good
post:
According to Alan Anderson:
...
> Qogh writes:
> >SuvwI'pu' law' yaymeybogh Qaw'moHlu' QamtaH ghaHDaq.
>
> "In/on him is standing one causes to destroy which victories many warriors."
>
> This has problems on many levels.
...
> Third, the locative suffix {-Daq} indicates where an action takes
> place, and should normally appear at the beginning of the Klingon
> sentence. (This isn't given as a rule in TKD, but the examples we
> have follow this pattern.) The only things that belong at the end
> of a Klingon sentence are subjects.
Actually, there IS a rule, though not an obvious one. TKD, 6.1
(page 60) "Any noun in a sentence indicating something other
than subject or object comes first, before the object noun.
Such nouns usually end in a Type 5 noun suffix (section 3.3.5)."
A locative noun is other than subject or object and it does end
in Type 5, so it pretty solidly fits in the rule that says it
has to come before the object noun, which puts it at the
beginning of the sentence, duking it out with adverbials,
dependent clauses and such for which REALLY begins the
sentence. At any rate, having {-Daq} on the last word of a
sentence is usually a bad idea.
> -- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj
charghwI'
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