tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 19 00:17:47 1996
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Re: -lu' with explicit objects
Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> This has undoubtedly come up before, but I can't remember the
> resolution.
>
> If a verb has an indefinite subject but a definite object, to be
> named explicitly as a noun rather than absorbed as the pronoun implied
> by the prefix, where does the noun go? Does it precede the verb, as an
> object, or follow it, as the subject (matching the prefix change
> brought on by {-lu'})?
>
> My personal interpretation, made without referencing TKD since my copy
> is at home and I'm at work, is that it should match the verbal
> prefix and occupy the subject position. So, if Kruge had wanted to
> emphasize "you" in "You will be remembered with honor", it would be
>
> batlh Daqawlu'taH SoH
>
> and not
>
> batlh SoH Daqawlu'taH
>
> Agreed?
>
> -marqoS
>
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