tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 16 17:09:48 1996
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Re: Dr. Okarnd Speaks -- lengthy
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>Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 04:17:27 -0800
>From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
>
>>}...Question words (in this case, nuq
>>}"what?") function the same way pronouns do in questions
>>}with "to be" in the English translations.
>>
>>Hmmm. nuq functions as a pronoun. I would have demanded the construction
>>nuq 'oH yIH'e' in unclipped speech.
>
>More disturbing, how inclusive is the phrase "question words" here?
>Does {nuqDaq} work this way too? *{yuch nuqDaq?} How about others?
>*{'uQ ghorgh?} *{DeSlIj chay'?}
I'm not sure it's all question words. True, he didn't specify, but we'll
have to see. "nuq" always was a pronoun-like word. It replaced nouns in
questions, so this new information isn't that new. "nuqDaq" and "ghorgh"
and "chay'" are adverb-like question-words. Note that these
classifications are all artificial: Klingons call them all chuvmey. There
almost certainly are groupings, but Okrand hasn't really gone into them in
great detail. After all, we KNOW that "nuq" goes in different places in a
sentence than "chay'".
~mark
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